Word: birding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FRANCES BIRD Chicago...
Beside these artists, the 20th Century cartoonists whose work made up a good three fourths of the show often seemed little more than hurried illustrators of passing quips. Yet the best of them, typified by Punch's present Editor Cyril K. Bird (portraits of England's beleaguered middle class) and the Evening Standard's bumptious David Low, showed the old English bite and a talent for good-natured selfcriticism, albeit streamlined...
Tourists eat well in Newfoundland. The main fare is steak, lamb, salmon or lobster, but there are also such piquant island specialties as seal-flipper pie, smoked caplin (a smeltlike fish), fried cod tongues, and gamy saltwater bird. For dessert, there are blueberries, tart partridge berries, and amber-hued bakeapple berries, topped with thick cream. Strictly for strong stomachs is the Sunday morning breakfast of fish and brewis (boiled hardtack) with pork cracklings...
...under the impression that the "Bird" plays alto sax 99&44/100ths of the the time. Could TIME have beeped when it should have bopped...
...simile, first of all, is unworthy of TIME'S vivid standards: "...Charlie ('Yard-bird') Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar..." [TIME...