Word: perching
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...themselves to the role of a Yearbook, they attempt to create a Book of Judgement, passing on the value of anything available. This is especially unfortunate since their judgements are bad. For example, the section on the Lampoon declares, "With the return of Thresky the Golden Ibis to his perch above the building, the Poonsters launched into a year which saw the return of high quality humor to the magazine...
...sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines in harmony. "Damn!" yelled a man falling from his perch to the sand. "She'll make it!" Cried MacNabb wildly to an associate: "If you weren't so ugly, I'd kiss...
Thresky, sacred ibis of a local "humor" magazine, has returned to his perch atop the Lampoon building. The footloose golden bird reappeared upon the Cambridge scene early yesterday morning and issued an immediate statement describing his travels...
After watching the spooning midwesterners every night during Harvard Summer School, Thresky began to long for a little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried...
...Ibis had departed from his perch atop the Lampoon building last summer, and persuaded the Owl to flee the Record two weeks ago. "We're nobody's birds-in-the hand," the tall bird muttered...