Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Butler flew into the fight like a bird into a badminton game. At the Fresno convention of the California Democratic Council, a group of 400 amateur clubs whose members are at odds with the party's state leaders, Butler urged all Democrats to "work with the regular organization." Up popped handsome Richard Graves,, defeated Democratic candidate for governor last year, who proceeded to insult Butler to his face while 1,000 delegates cheered. The party leadership, he snapped, "must earn its right to lead." Graves thereupon analyzed Democratic troubles. "We have stood in the long shadow of Roosevelt...
This Song Is for the Bird's (Spike Jones; Victor). "There are songs for people, and songs for dogs, and songs for monkeys and even for frogs," sings the Jones quartet irreverently, but T.S.I.-F.T.B...
...famed Peruvian singer combines her trick voice with the driving, big-band rhythms of Billy May. She growls like a bush-league Carmen, coloratours through the upper register like the Queen of the Night, and whoops like a jungle bird, but is it mambo...
...fine bits of very smart Alec. "Remember,'' he remarks vaguely to his son as they inspect their room in a French hotel, "that's not a foot bath." Best of all is the moment when Alec, having rashly climbed a tree to retrieve a badminton bird, staggers at last out of a series of vegetable ignominies. And where is the bird? It is not hard to imagine, as dazedly he picks the feathers, one by one, out of his teeth...
...have the misty morning grandeur of a mirage that stays. The Sun Is Never Alone presents a more complex image in almost equally simple terms. The red and black crescent shapes supporting the sun's molten disk through the dusk can be read as clouds, a bird, a fish, a sailboat, or all four combined...