Word: pigeoning
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Last week in Philadelphia, Around the World was still caught in its own propwash. During one of Orson's magic acts a pigeon flapped to the top of the house, committed a nuisance on the customers. Said one: "The pigeon was a good dramatic critic...
From time to time the city has pigeon-holed construction of larger traffic signals on each of the streets converging on the Square. Placed fifteen to twenty feet away from the corner they would be visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers...
Paul Julius Reuter, a German bank clerk, started his business 97 years ago in a pigeon loft at Aix-la-Chapelle, soon expanded into a ubiquitous emissary of the Victorian empire...
...late, famed dodo bird died of stupidity sometime in the 17th Century. A clumsy, pigeon-like groundling, larger than a turkey, the dodo lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Life in that restricted world was so safe and so easy that the dodo became defenseless. With the arrival of settlers on Mauritius, the birds were slaughtered by man & beast. The dodo's flesh was tough and tasteless and it might have survived in spite of its dim-witted clumsiness-but pigs smashed the eggs and monkeys ate the young...
Perhaps I lost my conscience and sense of moral values while serving in the Marine Corps. There we were taught that if one loved his enemies overmuch, he was likely to wake up a very dead pigeon...