Word: pigeons
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...three years the City Hall has seen Mayor Walker, seldom before the pigeon-splashed city clock has marked noon. Since the day Governor Smith singled him out of the State Senate for Job No. 3, much water has gone under political bridges. But Mayor Walker, though he was once president of Silver King Water Co. ("A Good Mixer"), is not the kind to care where the water goes...
...noon approached, good Squire Baldwin took his stance, puffing the most often caricatured pipe in England. He listened intently, visibly. "Clang . . . clang . . . clang . . . clang!" began Big Ben?but at the fifth stroke a pigeon descended with whirring wings and spoiled everything...
...with the Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...
...educational authorities to the fact that the implications of a subject fully compare in importance with the appealing neatness which it presents when served up by one instructor and a set reading list. Only recently has the realizations that the minds of college students were becoming mere collections of pigeon-holed information, notable as much for the wide open spaces between as for the remarkable development of isolated subdivisions, forced educators towards efforts at integration...
...Manhattan last week, 7,500 birds, 187 rabbits, 15 cavies (i. e., guinea pigs), and a great number of persons crowded the basement of Madison Square Garden. This was the 40th Annual Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Show...