Search Details

Word: pigeoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...foundling in question is presumably a genus Ectopistes migratorius, colloquially known as a passenger pigeon, although University experts called into conference late yesterday were not agreed as to its exact status...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Foundling Left Deserted on Crimson Doorstep | 2/10/1942 | See Source »

Richard A. Harlow, curator of Oology, and incidentally coach of the football team, was undisposed to gamble his professional reputation by hazarding a guess on the correct Latin name, but was of the opinion that it was some sort of pigeon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Foundling Left Deserted on Crimson Doorstep | 2/10/1942 | See Source »

Questions will be asked concerning students' experience in vocations that range from Able Seaman to Home Pigeon Fanciers and from Metallurgical Engineers to masseurs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense Service Committee Steering Men to War Work in Boston Region | 1/7/1942 | See Source »

Thoma admitted, however, that the new program will probably lead to a certain revision of the curriculum of many dental schools, notably the cutting down in number of secondary departments into which the instruction is pigeon-holed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DENTAL SCHOOL TRAINS PLASTIC, ORAL SURGEONS | 11/6/1941 | See Source »

...like children, you will be somewhat nauseated after two hours of billing and cooing but the youngsters on the screen and a similar period of oohing and ahing by slobberly sentimental housewives in the seats behind you. Walter Pidgeon--hereafter to be known as the dead pigeon--does as much as can be done with a role as lifeless as King Tut. Greer Garson, with her red hair in a big knot, looks like seven pounds of potatoes in a five pound bag--and I do mean bag. The picture as a whole--well, we won't be unkind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | Next