Word: pigeoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the high-ceilinged lobby of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, where the American Psychiatric Association was holding its annual meeting, flew a fat pigeon. Two days and many conferences later, pointedly ignored by hotel guests, the bird still perched or flapped over the potted palms and the crowded sofas. A pressroom aide explained: "Everyone was afraid to mention the pigeon in the lobby, with all these psychiatrists around...
...exclusive CRIMSON interview last night, pigeon no. 1 (grey, male) cast an eagle eye on pigeon no. 2 (brown, young; female) and squawked, "Well stacked-the shelves, that...
...alone in its aim to become a nationwide student's magazine, the April Progressive contains eleven articles, six of which ought to be of special interest to socially aware undergraduates all over the country. The other five items, including competent reports from Washington and on Palestine and a clay pigeon contributed by the opposition, entitled "The Failure of Democratic Socialism," bear the stigma of being inferior examples of what The Nation or The New Republic do all the time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen...
...occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with a message: "Entered plant O.K. Don't worry...
Whether "The Angel and the Badman" is the signal of a long awaited intellectual renaissance among western producers or whether it will he pigeon-holed as a noble experiment, the block long queues at the Paramount and Fenway are an accurate indication of public taste and appreciation...