Word: plumed
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...plume of Alexei Maximovich Pyeshko, son of a dyer, onetime bootmaker, famed for his Defoe-esque novels and for his great drama, The Lower Depths...
...into Genoa the Superb last week, joined the excited Genoese in watching for an imposing procession of ships which steamed at length into their great hill-cradled harbor. As this squadron of naval and merchant ships approached, a lone figure wearing an admiral's hat with a towering white plume was finally discerned upon the flagship's bridge. For two hours thereafter thousands of sirens blew without ceasing...
...gods commonly portrayed in painting and sculpture the jaguar was second in importance only to the plumed serpent, Kukulcan. This serpent of ours has no plume, but he does have a bird's foot with distended claws at the extremity of a sort of dragon's leg attached to his body. This foot is held angrily below his open jaws. These would not be recognizable as a snake's jaws by a person unfamiliar with Maya art, which advanced over a course of conventionalization that took it to the pole opposite that of such realistic portrayal...
...Curtis' great grandmother was the daughter of White Plume, a chief of the Kaws, and granddaughter of a chief of the Osages. She married a French trader, Conville, and their daughter, Julie Conville married another French trader, Pappan. This gentlewoman, Mr. Curtis' grandmother had an Indian allotment on which Mr Curtis was born. Ellen Pappan, his mother married Captain O. A. Curtis. Part of the Senator's boyhood was spent on the Kaw reservation...
...undergraduates think. He pointed to the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education as just such a standard, and one by which he was willing that his administration should be judged. A similar feather in his hat, of smaller significance, perhaps, and a plume of different hue, is the Gadfly which appears this morning. For not only is it a careful and diligent attempt to cope with problems of imminent import to the University, but it also presents an attitude quite opposite to that of the Student Council Committee, and the attitude more to be expected from explosive...