Word: popinjay
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...Theatre." By way of advertisement, he filled his splendid barouche-three white horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed and Jay Gould sorrowed sincerely; the masses, damp-eyed, mourned vociferously...
After the revolution, John Paul Jones moved in a dazzling maze of intrigue and outcry. The Duchess of Chartres had helped him fit his ships, and he was a welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some...
...This rhyme has frequently appeared of late in the public prints. And it has sometimes been supplemented by the information that the motto appearing on the Curzon arms is 'Let Curzon holde what Curzon helde', and the statement that our crest is described in heraldry as 'a popinjay rising, wings displayed...