Word: pigeoning
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...fate which kept lovers apart. "If only," blurted Auguste at last, "that husband would drop dead!" Well, murmured the professor soothingly, why not? A few hints dropped here & there to the right people in the spirit world-all the professor needed to do the job, in fact, was two pigeon hearts and 27,000 francs. Auguste procured both items...
...Long Voyage Home. In Masterton, N.Z., Pigeon Fancier Robert Stewart looked in his loft, announced that his entry in the 1947 pigeon race from Christchurch to Masterton (300 miles) had finally made...
...most talked about of classic gifts is an endowment fund established to clean pigeon droppings off a statue. At their twentieth reunion, the class of 1883 presented the college with a bronze bust of James Russell Lowell, class of 1838, to be placed in a niche on Massachusetts Hall, with a stone seat in front...
...Several members of the Teachers' Union made unfriendly remarks about their former associate, Bella Dodd, a repentant Communist who had been a friendly witness two weeks before (TIME, Sept. 22). Said Art Teacher Irving Glucksman: "I don't want to be a victim of any lying stool pigeon or any religious fanatic who thinks he is serving God by impoverishing the minds of children...
...Skokholm Island Bird Observatory off Britain's Welsh coast, a pigeon-sized male Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus puffinus) was taking his tour of duty on the family nest last week, none the worse for an epic round-trip Atlantic crossing. A month before, Puffinus had been delivered to Rosario Mazzeo, staff manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an amateur ornithologist, who was flying back to the U.S. from a European visit. Next day, at Boston's Logan International Airport, Mazzeo released Puffinus from his cage, and launched him out over the water for the return flight...