Word: pigeoning
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...morning of Sept. 10, 1924, after the master and his guests had returned from an entertainment for the Prince of Wales, a thief slipped into the Cosden's bedroom and took from Mrs. Cosden's dressing table her diamond bracelet, black pearl ring, pink pearl ring, and pigeon blood rubies (aggregate value: $100,000), slipped into a nearby room and took $42,000 worth of jewels lying on a tray near Lady Mountbatten...
...sounded instantly. While fountains of blazing tar shot into the air, a rescue squad hurried toward the plant. Not one lived to reach it. Some of the burning tar fell on a gas tank 270 feet high, 150 feet in diameter. Houses crumpled like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station...
...Dome," and the position of its author in Irish literature, but the choice between them depends on certain information which is not usually contained in the cover jacket blurb. One would like to know whether this book was written, as it was published, after its author's recent success. "Pigeon Irsh," or whether it is an early work issued on the strength of the previous one. It was "Pigeon Irsh," which this reviewer has not read, that gave Mr. Stuart his position of prominence among the younger novelists; if "The Colored Dome" is really its successor, that position must...
...North and South Siders. Klondike's Brother Myles and notorious Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin, both now dead, shot up the Capone citadel in Cicero in 1925. Of the remaining 35 public enemies, only Frank Diamond, no relation to Manhattan's late little criminal clay pigeon "Legs," is important and at the same time somewhat obscure to newspaper readers. He runs speakeasies and resorts...
...lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find in his writing a harmony for the Irish soul. Backed by William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, he has just been nominated to membership in the new Irish Academy of Letters. Other books: Pigeon Irish, We Have Kept the Faith (verse, given a prize by the Royal Irish Academy...