Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cries the hawksman as he sends his bird aloft. Some such command rang through the woodlands of Assyria 3,000 years ago, and carried down the Middle Ages. Every king had his eagles, every earl his peregrines, and even a knave might fly a kestrel. They brought pigeon and duck to the table, and sport to the afternoon...
Imperial Rome was once so full of sculptures that the inanimate population of the city came close to outnumbering the walk & talk variety. The U.S. is contrastingly cold to sculpture; its inanimate population is largely confined to stiff, solitary, pigeon-besmirched, cast-iron characters in parks. Manhattan's 84-man Sculptors Guild has spent 13 years trying to right the situation, and last week the guild tried again with an exhibition of its members' work at the Museum of Natural History...
...chiefly about loneliness. "The world," he says, "is too big; we lose people in it." Wandering through the lyrical pages of Ghost and Flesh is a variety of lost and lonely souls, including such town oddities as "Old Mrs. Woman," whom nobody loved because she was too fat, "Little Pigeon," an aging loony, and "Pore Perrie," who died from grief because her adopted son did not love her. They flit through the book more ghost than flesh...
...last day, the King went shooting among the oak trees and bramble thickets of the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. Bareheaded and cheerful in the wintry sunshine, the King shot 50 hares, brought down a pigeon with a fine 100-ft. wing shot. That afternoon, pulling off his boots, George VI said contentedly to his shooting companions: "It's been a very good day's sport, gentlemen. I will expect you here at 9 o'clock on Thursday." Footman Daniel Long, who took a cup of cocoa to the King at 11 p.m. and found...
...promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none-too-close look at what appeared to be a winged rabbit (see cut). He later announced that...