Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrilled the arrival of another day. Laboriously he opens an eye. Hmm, only six o'clock. At least four hours before the mind will be able to concentrate on work. Raising his head, he looks out the open window. Sun on towers and chimneys already. A pigeon coos on a nearby ledge. Four stories below a watchman's heavy feet lumber past, echoing dully. Hot Golly, it's hot. But why, the Vagabond wonders, after nine months training to the contrary, should he suddenly wake up early? Just to worship nature on a beautiful morning? Definitely no--sleep...
...lawyer named James Hobson Morrison to organize them into the Louisiana Farmers Protective Union and protect them from the chain stores. James Morrison took a sound truck around the State, before long had 10,000 members. By last week he had made almost every chain "kiss a pigeon"- which in Louisiana means to knuckle under, to cry Uncle...
...prominent University Hall Official was interviewed concerning the scandal. Induced from a pigeon-hole by a tempting piece of Roquefort, the official asserted, cautiously peering from side to side, "I will recommend militant disciplinary action. I'm off to Pinehurst. Wheel Say, didn't you think the latest Lampoon was a smackeroo? Omigosh, here comes a secretary. Enough is enough...
...disclosure was made public late last night when an unidentified stool-pigeon reported to the Harvard headquarters that the Elis had "nefariously inveigled their honorable contestants" by substituting the more effective large balls for the more skill-testing small ones, which the Crimson police used...
Although unable to present concrete evidence since supposedly the alleys are in "cahoots" with the Yale police in return for "Protection," the stool-pigeon reported that many of the members of the Blue team do not possess badges, but are alley-rats or "ringers...