Word: pigeoning
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...lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions of Mainichi and Nichi-Nichi in Japanese, Motoyama published a daily Mainichi in English, made it the largest newspaper in that language East of Suez. Other Motoyama publications: a Sunday Mainichi, a weekly Braille Mainichi for the blind, the bi-monthly Economist, the monthly Cine-education...
GALSWORTHY (John) The Pigeon...
...cast suspicion on Freemason organizations, and a Colonel Susitaivil who was accused of hampering police investigations. Last week Finland's Freemasons were cleared. Police raided a cemetery, caught three men and two women in the act of dissecting a cadaver. In the man's pockets were several pigeons. They explained that certain parts of the corpses, supplemented by pigeon blood, were very useful for "occult purposes...
...PIGEON IRISH-Francis Stuart-Mac-millan...
...Republic of Ireland, as in an ark in a rising flood, Intelligence Officer Frank Allen and Brigid, his bride of a year, await the worst, find solace in each other's love. To their farm outside Dublin, used as a carrier pigeon base, come their friend Joe Arigho, Commandant of Home Defense, and his young daughter Catherine, who trains the carriers. They are expecting messages from the front. Allen tries to make his guests easy, is made uneasy himself by Catherine. Just out of a convent, she has strange ideas of martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks...