Word: pigeoning
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Layette. In St. Louis, doctors and nurses at St. Mary's Hospital took a professional interest in an intent hen pigeon nesting comfortably on two eggs on the maternity ward porch...
...launched a drive against loyalty oaths in December 1949, when it attacked the "stool pigeon" clause in the oath required of all Navy men, including Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members. The clause, compelling Navy men to name all persons connected with groups listed as subversive by the Justice Department, was called a "menace to American freedom and a special threat to academic freedom...
...cries the hawksman as he sends his bird aloft. Some such command rang through the woodlands of Assyria 3,000 years ago, and carried down the Middle Ages. Every king had his eagles, every earl his peregrines, and even a knave might fly a kestrel. They brought pigeon and duck to the table, and sport to the afternoon...
Imperial Rome was once so full of sculptures that the inanimate population of the city came close to outnumbering the walk & talk variety. The U.S. is contrastingly cold to sculpture; its inanimate population is largely confined to stiff, solitary, pigeon-besmirched, cast-iron characters in parks. Manhattan's 84-man Sculptors Guild has spent 13 years trying to right the situation, and last week the guild tried again with an exhibition of its members' work at the Museum of Natural History...
...chiefly about loneliness. "The world," he says, "is too big; we lose people in it." Wandering through the lyrical pages of Ghost and Flesh is a variety of lost and lonely souls, including such town oddities as "Old Mrs. Woman," whom nobody loved because she was too fat, "Little Pigeon," an aging loony, and "Pore Perrie," who died from grief because her adopted son did not love her. They flit through the book more ghost than flesh...