Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past three years, more & more Britons have been listening with rapt attention to a BBC program called Bird Song of the Month. Even non-bird-lovers have been won by the personality of the show's M.C., excitable, 68-year-old Dr. Ludwig Koch. Says Producer Desmond Hawkins: "The charm about Ludwig is that he is one of the few fanatics left...
...main differences: Elizabeth was no lovely hothouse orchid. She had curls, said one visitor, which were "like the pendent ears of a water spaniel, and poor little hands, so thin that when she welcomed you she gave you something like the foot of a young bird." Browning himself, with his big, bumped nose, was scarcely Apollo reincarnate. And Old Man Barrett, though rather like an ogre, was hardly as black as hell's chimney after all; Elizabeth called him "Sweet Puppy...
Rounding out the bill are a number of chorus routines, a tumbling team and a trained love bird art. The chorus, advertised as "30 beautiful women," does not live up to its billing either in number or description. The ladies seem bored with the whole affair and succeed in making the audience share their view...
...take it, don't go to Italy at all; stop off only at museum pieces such as Belgium's Bruges-"a lovely stuffed bird." If, on the other hand, your stomach is strong enough to take the parfumerie with the campanile, the tinsel bambino with the David of Michelangelo, the abysmal filth with the supreme sunlight-then make your pilgrimage to the cities of Italy, remembering always the words of a loth Century Irish bard...
...strain watching Richter strain for colorful expressions. But when he succeeds, they're good, e.g., "You wouldn't reckon to look at her she could read a lick, but she'd turn the old page and suck out the meaning of the new like a bird pulling out a worm...