Word: pigeoning
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...Venice he was photographed feeding the pigeons outside of St. Mark's Cathedral. It was a drizzly morning and the Mayor, with Mrs. Walker, had just attended Mass. This was the occasion for scurrilous comments in the Manhattan press. Slyly wrote the correspondent of the tabloid Daily News: "When they left the Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate...
Among the campaign utterances of Mayor Thompson had been a promise to oust "that stool pigeon of King George," Superintendent McAndrew. The color of the epithet was derived entirely from the Thompson campaign scheme. He and his friends were out to startle the electorate with an unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...
...says the groom of Mr. Van Twidder. The trouble is that Mr. Van Twidder has been pressed into too many wedding ceremonies, is bored with everything. No former wedding was like this one, however, where he is obliged to recover letters from a blackmailing woman and to chase a pigeon up the flagpole of a skyscraper in what proved, figuratively and literally, to be the high point of a funny film...
...Sullivan estimated loosely that some 75,000,000 McGuffey's were at one time or another be tween 1835 and 1900 in the hands of some 20,000,000 U. S. school children. But just when and just where, "like the last passenger pigeon," was a McGuffey's last seen and used...
...last week, after dimpled "La Talley" and dainty "La Bori" had kissed their hands a few last times to Manhattan; after flamboyant Martinelli had strutted through Pagliacci and pouter-pigeon Gigli had caroled Rigoletto; after Signer Gatti Casazza had proclaimed the past season his most successful ever, and his opera the best in the world, the Metropolitan entrained, trunks, bags and scenery, ultimately for Atlanta and Cleveland but for a first stop in Columbia's District...