Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comedienne Carol Channihg, 29, admitted that a grave personal problem had grown out of her playing the role of bird-brained Lorelei Lee in Broadway's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. People seemed to be convinced that she is a birdbrain offstage, too: "I won't say that people actually think I'm just two steps removed from outright idiocy, but they do seem to have adopted a protective attitude towards...
This correspondent cannot speak for the players, but in every dealing with the press Art has shown himself a rare bird indeed among the men who make their living from athletics. This has nothing to do with being willing to talk to newsmen, either professional or amateur. No coach nowadays can afford to cut himself off from the press, and the fact that Valpey realized this is in itself nothing extraordinary...
...Inside patients' appendices, surgeons have found: pins, needles, nails, screws, bird shot, bullets, iron filings, solder, stones, buttons, seeds, beans, oat hulls, chestnuts, pieces of bone and wood, straw, bristles, eggshell, hair and teeth...
...Early Bird. "No man ever worked harder all his life than I have," the Secretary says. And no man who didn't get up pretty early in the morning could get ahead of Charles Sawyer...
Circus Mogul Henry Ringling ("Bud") North was fed up. Thieves stole two coconut palm trees from his property at Bird Key, Ringling Islands, Sarasota, Fla., returned next day and stole three more...