Word: perched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ibis, the traditional symbol of the The Lampoon, was reported missing Saturday from its long-standing perch atop the magazine's building. University police are investigating the bird's disappearance...
...Stevenson is a dead duck politically -and this seems quite likely-don't think that Estes Kefauver is a live one, flying directly to a White House perch. Like Wendell Willkie, Estes Kefauver seems to like people and people seem to like him. But the political leaders don't like him-and in particular the Democratic members of the Senate. The Southerners in these days of the hot segregation issue don't like Estes either...
...Birds. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., the case against Frank Richards, charged with allowing a rooster to run loose and perch on the hat of a twelve-year-old girl, was dropped after Richards showed up for trial, informed the court that he had eaten the evidence...
...Unhappily, NBC showed the customers little Hollywood living and less playing. The principal commodity the community has to offer is glamour, and in its advance ballyhoo NBC shrewdly used the come-on: "Visit the homes of the stars!" But though the camera got to the front lawn, rear garden, perch and doorstep of many a noble mansion, it never quite managed to get inside...
Television was busy last week with scalpel and sedative, and viewers had a vicarious whirl through the agonies of d.t.s, the miseries of migraine and the horrors of infanticide. On NBC's March of Medicine, Announcer Ben Grauer introduced the subject of alcoholism from a comfortable perch at Moriarty's bar on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. His point: most of the bibbers in sight were capable of taking it or of leaving it alone...