Word: pigeoning
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...last day, the King went shooting among the oak trees and bramble thickets of the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. Bareheaded and cheerful in the wintry sunshine, the King shot 50 hares, brought down a pigeon with a fine 100-ft. wing shot. That afternoon, pulling off his boots, George VI said contentedly to his shooting companions: "It's been a very good day's sport, gentlemen. I will expect you here at 9 o'clock on Thursday." Footman Daniel Long, who took a cup of cocoa to the King at 11 p.m. and found...
...promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none-too-close look at what appeared to be a winged rabbit (see cut). He later announced that...
...higher target than the steelmakers' own Joe Magarac: the $2,829,000,000 U.S. Steel Corp., sired by J. P. Morgan the Elder, weaned by Judge Elbert Gary, and now, in its maturity, presided over by a miner's son from Pigeon Run, Ohio, named Benjamin Franklin Fairless...
Ride into Steel. The town of Pigeon Run, where Ben Fairless was born, was a small cluster of sooty frame houses hard by the hillside coal pits where Fairless' father, David Williams, grubbed out a meager living for his wife and four children. Williams had such a hard time making ends meet that his wife's sister, Sarah Fairless, took five-year-old Ben to live with her in nearby Justus. In the front room of their house by the railroad tracks, her husband, Jacob Fairless, ran a grocery. The couple adopted Ben, and he took their name...
...shining, people smiling--wait. Maybe he can find a pigeon in here. Best place to look would be in that pigeon-hole over there by the wall. Mmmmmm. Disappointing. Not his type. Tall feathers nice, though...