Word: pigeoned
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...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...
...doubt children, old women, and the sentimental will cry. And in their interest, we would add a plea for mercy: let not the innocent suffer with the guilty. Pigeons are ugly, evil, and dirty, but sparrows and squirrels are not. Sparrows and squirrels are merely the dupes of pigeons. It is a well-known fact that pigeons use these amiable creatures as fronts, that food intended for the squirrels ends up in some pigeon's pockets. Therefore, in the interests of mercy, the signs on the Common should be changed to read...
...Roman Catholic priest, well known both for his courage (he was captured with the paratroopers) and for his bitter opposition to Castro, appeared as a blubbering stool pigeon. "I am completely sorry for what has happened, and I ask the Cuban people to accept my sorrow," he said. "The Americans forced me to do it." Said an invasion survivor, watching the performance on TV in Miami: "I know that man like a brother. He might have been drugged...
...Saudi ruler at three separate personal palaces. Fifteen hundred attended one banquet where, among other dishes, 25 young camels and 185 lambs were consumed. Specialty of the day: an entire young camel, roasted, containing an entire lamb, roasted, containing an entire roasted chicken, containing an entire roasted pigeon, contain ing a boiled egg. The repast was enlivened by Saud's five court jesters, who cracked off-color jokes and engaged in pratfall buffoonery...
...fine novel into film. The acting, in particular, is exceptional. Wendy Hiller is repellently pitiable as the carnivorous mother who entraps D. H. Lawrence's hero. Dean Stockwell fits exactly the author's descriptions of Paul Morel, the almost girlish young artist who calls his mother "pigeon" and dotes on her doting. Heather Sears and Mary Ure are appealing as the young women with whom, and by means of whom, Paul tries to break free; their characterizations are deep enough to show that each girl is in a trap of her own. But it is Trevor Howard...