Word: perch
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Except in the South, carnies know no racial discrimination. The shows that do discriminate, or tolerate "dunk-a-boy" concessions (in which a Negro boy sits on a perch that drops him into water if a customer hits a target with a ball), are considered "dirty." A "clean" show is not necessarily one that has no naked dancing girls-it is simply a show that gives its customers what it promises...
...Ibis, the traditional symbol of the The Lampoon, was reported missing Saturday from its long-standing perch atop the magazine's building. University police are investigating the bird's disappearance...
...Stevenson is a dead duck politically -and this seems quite likely-don't think that Estes Kefauver is a live one, flying directly to a White House perch. Like Wendell Willkie, Estes Kefauver seems to like people and people seem to like him. But the political leaders don't like him-and in particular the Democratic members of the Senate. The Southerners in these days of the hot segregation issue don't like Estes either...
...Birds. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., the case against Frank Richards, charged with allowing a rooster to run loose and perch on the hat of a twelve-year-old girl, was dropped after Richards showed up for trial, informed the court that he had eaten the evidence...
...Unhappily, NBC showed the customers little Hollywood living and less playing. The principal commodity the community has to offer is glamour, and in its advance ballyhoo NBC shrewdly used the come-on: "Visit the homes of the stars!" But though the camera got to the front lawn, rear garden, perch and doorstep of many a noble mansion, it never quite managed to get inside...