Word: pigeoneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning mist last week, a delegation from New Jersey, headed by Governor Alfred Driscoll, drove slowly across the two-mile length of the new Delaware Memorial Bridge. Delaware's Governor Elbert Carvel was waiting at Pigeon Point, just below Wilmington on the Delaware side. After appropriate speeches and snipping of ribbons, the long lines of waiting trucks and cars started across the $44 million span. Within 24 hours, 20,000 paid toll to bypass the tedious old New Castle-Pennsville ferry; they saved an average two hours on the Jersey route between New York and points south...
...German justice." The New York Times's Drew Middleton solemnly cabled that "the whole structure of German friendship and sympathy toward Americans . . . has been fractured." It wasn't as bad as that, though a lot of Germans were delighted to see the Americans stuck defending a stool pigeon...
...last week, Venter's Negro laborer Mannetjie called excitedly to his boss, held up a yellow diamond the size of a pigeon's egg. The diamond diggers crowded around, passed it from hand to hand. The stone was a "Cape yellow" weighing 511¼ carats, a nearly perfect octahedron and one of the biggest diamonds ever found in South Africa.* Next day Venter sold it for $51,100. Mannetjie's cut: $280. While other prospectors feverishly dug away in Nooitgedacht, Venter said merely: "Man, I been smiling so much it hurts...
...starts to skedaddle home, and accidentally tweaks off the corpse's beard, whereupon he notices a locket slung around the fleshless neck. Inside the locket is a ciphered message that leads, after two murders and a mort of escapes and chases, to a diamond "as big as a pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound for Java-until Author Falkner manages...
Lepine told the ministry there was only one thing to do: reduce the number of pigeons. This, said he, would be better for both the people and the monuments of Paris. But he had reckoned without the pigeon lovers. The ministry began to get threatening letters. Said Lepine sadly: "There are some who would rather see men die than pigeons...