Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yaller bird, let my corn alone...
...Yaller bird, let my crawps alone...
Emily Lytton, daughter of Lord Robert Lytton, British Ambassador to France, and granddaughter of Author Bulwer-Lytton, became one of Parson Elwin's "blessed girls" in 1887. Emily was as rare a bird in her way as Elwin in his: she was in angry rebellion against the Victorian way of life. Urged to become maid of honor to Queen Victoria, Emily snorted: "I must indeed have fallen low to considered just the type to keep company with the royal family...
...Poet Jean Cocteau's freshly penned introduction, eloquently recited by French Cinemactor Jean Marais: "Your name begins with a caress and ends with a whiplash. You wear feathers and furs which seem to be part of your body like the furs of beasts and the feathers of birds . . . There comes to us, in full sail, a frigate, a prow's figurehead, a Chinese fish, a lyre bird, unbelievable and marvelous...
...which Mother Colette rounded on the men and barked: "Can't you do better than compare her to a decapitated woman or a wounded bird...