Word: pigeoning
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...profit every year since 1908; its earnings averaged $1,432,000 annually for the five years ended with 1930; this year it may make a million dollars against $878,000 last year. In good times it employs 2,300 men; now it employs 1,500. It makes clay pigeon traps, sportsmen's targets and detonators as well as shells and cartridges, is affiliated with four powder companies. President Olin hates waste and laziness, does not like to hire baseball enthusiasts or golfers. The atmosphere in the plant is friendly and open, but whenever there is an explosion (on July...
Vines, 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Southern California, youngest champion in the history of U. S. tennis, shook hands with Lott, wrapped a towel around his neck while Lott put on a blazer, moved over to a microphone in his slow pigeon-toed shuffle. Theorists wondered whether Vines would, like Doeg, slump after becoming champion; or whether, which seemed a shade more likely, he would improve enough to dominate U. S. tennis like Tilden, McLoughlin, Larned, Wrenn, and Richard D. Sears...
...Manhattan last week a flock of 32 pigeons flew from their windowsill perches on the east side of lower Broadway toward St. Paul's Chapel on the west side. In mid-flight each pigeon closed its wings, dropped dead to the asphalt...
...Caesar's Rome, whose government was as corrupt as Manhattan's is now suspected of being, augurs would have found such a pigeon fall ominous, especially because death had come from the east. Haruspices might have inspected the entrails of the birds (extispicy), interpreted the portents. Prognostication would probably have involved, according to the political exigencies of the community, the deaths of conspirators against the commonwealth...
...dodo in the round, as a tour de force in taxidermy (see cut). His dodo with its relatively short wings, its chunky body and its tufted tail looks like a monstrously big duckling with a gull's bill. Actually the dodo, despite its looks, was a kind of pigeon...