Word: birding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walked on the bucking water like a bird...
Pablo Picasso, 67, leading post-impressionist and a founder of cubism, was seriously dabbling again in realism. For Paris' Communist-sponsored "World Congress of Partisans of Peace," scheduled for later this month, he had painted a dove of peace that looked just like a dove. The bird, trilled Communist L'Humanite, was "vital and soft. Its plumage shines and drives back the shadows...
...Jimmy was forever darting away from his post in the peak-of-prosperity days-to Florida or Europe or simply to the fights. New York didn't seem to mind. Jimmy was the cock o' the walk, a witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party of the '20s was over...
...rare bird, all nine feet of him complete with tall feathers, will parade atop an automobile on Massachusetts Avenue opposite Widener Library...
constructed by a group of Tech students, and featuring a motor mechanism behind, Gootenberg refused to say whether the duck would be drinking beer or other intoxicants common to the bird's former habits...