Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Centipede's Club" has tried to smuggle a letter out to the Governor. And although Robert Locket has taken the blame, the warden has ordered all to be flogged over the Iron Horse. Groaning, whimpering from their beating, the boys unreasonably accuse Locket of being a stool pigeon. Defending him, Red arranges a light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan...
Outside the world is swaying in a light and airy rhythm. The swank blues and mousey grays of Central Square hoyer by; gay bucks and their plebeian maids are on the shabby avenue, tempting one to stray abroad. The Vagabond, pigeon-breasted from long days at his books, expands his lungs, and plunges into the indescribale subway entrance. There, his stick and gloves, his shining topper, are the center of a half-awed admiration. He enters the car like a fairy prince swirling away in his coach; even the guards bow and scrape like tousled sycophants...
...morning of Sept. 10, 1924, after the master and his guests had returned from an entertainment for the Prince of Wales, a thief slipped into the Cosden's bedroom and took from Mrs. Cosden's dressing table her diamond bracelet, black pearl ring, pink pearl ring, and pigeon blood rubies (aggregate value: $100,000), slipped into a nearby room and took $42,000 worth of jewels lying on a tray near Lady Mountbatten...
...sounded instantly. While fountains of blazing tar shot into the air, a rescue squad hurried toward the plant. Not one lived to reach it. Some of the burning tar fell on a gas tank 270 feet high, 150 feet in diameter. Houses crumpled like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station...
...Dome," and the position of its author in Irish literature, but the choice between them depends on certain information which is not usually contained in the cover jacket blurb. One would like to know whether this book was written, as it was published, after its author's recent success. "Pigeon Irsh," or whether it is an early work issued on the strength of the previous one. It was "Pigeon Irsh," which this reviewer has not read, that gave Mr. Stuart his position of prominence among the younger novelists; if "The Colored Dome" is really its successor, that position must...