Word: plumes
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...exhibit their pets with set-up tails, despite the crusade of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to abolish an age-old practice recently outlawed in New York. To get around the law, exhibitors, with $10,000 to $20,000 invested in each of their plume-tailed beauties, have procured affidavits from veterinarians certifying that the tail-setting operation (in which muscles are cut and the tail forced up into an unnatural arch) was performed for the health of the horse. For some reason, this makes it legal...
HARVARD ARMY Willetts, l.w. r.w., Woodruff Ayres, c. c., F. Tate Duane, r.w. l.w., Gilbert Gray, l.d. r.d., Grygiel Hulse, r.d. l.d., Plume Fenn, g. g., J. Tate...
...swing fans who hibernate in the Club. For those who are subject to racket making attacks, though, there is a very efficient sedative in the form of one named Red. When better men are built they most certainly will resemble Red the Bouncer. His official nom de plume is bartender, but when he shakes a cocktail, it's only to develop his biceps. At one o'clock the waitresses make the rounds collecting the empty glasses and bottles and Red makes the rounds collecting coat collars which he assists down the stairs. and thus the Stag Club closes...
Nose-down went the P-39, trailing a white exhaust plume. Her prop, turning just fast enough to keep her Allison engine warm, began to windmill. The airspeed indicator hand began to turn-350 -400. But Andy McDonough kept his eye fixed mostly on the hands of the sensitive altimeter. Around 5,000 he eased the ship out into level flight, called the field again: "Dive completed . . . returning to base." When he landed, a doctor checked him over. Nothing wrong. Mechanics checked the Airacobra for skin wrinkles, other evidences of strain. All O.K. Andy McDonough was on his way back...
First white man to see, accurately describe a quetzal was Robert Owen of England in 1840. Plume-hunters nearly exterminated the birds, which are now protected by the Guatemalan Government. The first live, baby quetzals were taken out of Guatemala by Explorer von Hagen three years ago. Three, all of which have since died, went to The Bronx Zoo. Six went to London. When last heard from two of these were still living. Chicago also acquired two young quetzals last...