Word: birding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that's the [one] we were looking for! . . . We went so far and he was here all the time." So cried the children in Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird when, after searching through heaven, earth and purgatory, they found the bird of happiness right in their own home...
...young Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, who was himself to spend a lifetime looking for the blue bird, home seemed the least likely place on earth in which to look. As a dreamy young lawyer in Belgium's bustling, businesslike city of Ghent back in the 1880s, he longed to get away beyond the city's narrow horizon with its slowly turning windmills. On the margins of his law books, he used to scribble ethereal verse about shining knights and gossamer ladies...
Romance with Head Cold. When The Blue Bird was produced in Paris, the author's eyes lingered on a lively girl who played the part of "Cold-in-the-Head." He took her home to the ancient Benedictine abbey near Rouen which he had bought as his residence. Eight years later, when Cold-in-the-Head was 27, the 57-year-old poet forsook Georgette and married her. They reconverted a huge gambling casino on a hillside overlooking Nice. There they settled down...
...world heaped honors on Maeterlinck. King Albert of the Belgians made him a count. Hollywood accorded him its highest accolade by starring Shirley Temple in his The Blue Bird. During World War II, Maeterlinck and his wife fled to the U.S. With them came two bluebirds. The Maeterlincks were permitted to land, but the bluebirds were barred because of the danger of psittacosis (parrot fever...
There are 25 birds to a round. This means the competitor shoots one bird from each house (singly) at each of the eight stations; and one bird from each house (simultaneously) from stations one, two, six, and seven. That makes 24. If he breaks all 24 birds, he can shoot his last one from any station and from either house. Otherwise, he want shoot the last bird from the place where he first missed...