Word: pigeons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
...unnatural horror is about to be perpetrated under the very poses of that splendid organization for the suppression of the immoral and the obscene in Boston, the Watch and Ward Society. Since time immemorial the Boston Common has been the high domain and secure retreat of the prolific pigeon. For years these delightful little feathered friends of men have lived and died, loved, wooed and wed, eaten our peanuts, gotten under our feet, and played the "scenic" role, protected not persecuted. Now it seems they are grown too numerous for their visible means of support and are doomed to death...
...develish ingenuity of this plan to deprive the poor pigeon of a happy old age surrounded by a circle of his loved ones can do nothing but outrage the feelings of all God fearing people, who will see in this nothing but a new attempt to endanger the sanctity of the home and the sacred institution of marriage...
...Keys. Key Largo, Plantation, the Matecumbes, Indian Key, Long Key, Grassy Key, Fat Deer, Key Vaca, Pigeon, Knight's, Little Duck, Big Pine Key, Cudjoe, the Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...