Word: pigeoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the start when Gaudio's camera looks on the lifeless landscape of the rubber plantation. Moving slowly, it picks up the dripping of tapped rubber trees, a thatched hut filled with sleeping natives, another hut hung with drying rubber strips, glides beside a fence to where a pigeon is drowsing. The silence is heavy with long, sharp shadows. Suddenly a shot splits the still air, the pigeon flaps off, a figure staggers onto the porch of a house in the background...
...Americans who platonize in the house, an ill-matched Irish couple who come for the afternoon, and their Cockney chauffeur. The true centre is inhuman : it is Lucy, a falcon with "maniacal eyes," who rides the Irishwoman's wrist and devours, from her bloody glove, a new-slain pigeon. While the chauffeur and the servants go backstairs to evolve the cruel jealousies of simple blood, and the Americans maintain their delicately sterile balance, the Irish pair talk. Most of their talk is of the falcon, whom the husband hates to desperation, and to whom the woman is attached...
...Bragdon 1G, Portland, Mc.; Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 2G, Evansville, Ind.; Thomas D. Durrance 1G, Washington, D. C.; David M. Pratt 2G, Williams town, Mass.; Lloyd G. Carr 1G, Waynesbore, Va.; Kendrick S. Fow 1G, Durham, N. C.; Curtis B. Watson 1G, Haverford, Pa.; and Carl P. Swanson 4G, Pigeon Cove, Mass...
When the telegraph outmodes the pigeon, Reuter tightens his belt, sticks to his ideal of making the world smaller. He convinces even the archbacked London Times that it should subscribe to his-the first-news service...
...extensively during the past ten years that they have come to be known as "soap operas." Leading soap-opera impresario is Procter & Gamble, whose 15 serials keep millions of women bathed in Ivory and suspense. Responsible for four of P. & G.'s sudsy dramas is Irna Phillips, a pigeon-plump spinster of 37, formerly a teacher, who has turned out a staggering total of 6,000 scripts in the course of her writing career. Now earning about $4,000 a week, Irna is the highest-paid aerial litterateuse in the country, by long odds the most prolific. Last week...