Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, at last, were Madrid's gourmets driven underground by Madrid's bird lovers. For generations Madrileños have been eating fried sparrows. There was a time when open-air stands on every street corner in the city sold the tender delicacies like hot franks at Coney Island. Then the bird lovers of Madrid's S.P.C.A. stepped in, flooding the city with leaflets quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who liked his birds on the wing and not the skillet. The fried birds were driven off the street corners and into the taverns...
Recently, bird lovers found a new and even more potent ally than -St. Francis. In an unexpected bureaucratic onslaught on the gourmets, the national confederation of farmers declared that mass slaughter of the useful and insectivorous sparrows was highly prejudicial to the nation's agriculture. Madrid's authorities promptly forbade the sale of pájaros fritos anywhere within the city. Specially appointed vigilantes now prowl Madrid's alleys to see that the law is observed. The price of black-market sparrows has soared from...
...they still call me a dictator?" President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza mused one day last week, as he chatted with a visitor on the plank porch of his Tamarindo ranch house. "Our jails are empty of political prisoners. Our press is as free as a bird. The newspapers attack me all the time. I let them. They can call me anything but an s.o.b." The President laughed: "I won't stand for that...
Baker and his California colleagues revere such "early moderns" as Negro Bop-sters Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie ("Yard-bird") Parker and Thelonius Monk. But they are far more interested in their own ideas than in merely imitating onetime models. In this, jazz historians may decide, the California youngsters are repeating the role of the white Northern musicians who 30 years ago picked up the original New Orleans variety and turned it into something called Dixieland...
Leading ornithologists in this country and England reported that the only metallic Ibis known to exist has been held for several years by the Lampoon, but that the bird has been mysteriously missing from its accustomed perch atop the building on Bow St. for over half a year...