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Word: birdman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidence was then submitted to the court to prove that Birdman Staggs inveterately smoked Camels. He was found guilty & Camel-smoking Staggs was ordered to furnish each member of the court with a pack of Old Golds. C. BRINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...lingers on, it won't be long now before she makes her appearance with a pair of wings, not the feathery kind that grace Gabriel and his cohorts, nor the horn-leathery ones of the Land of the Eternal Fire, but rather the modern everyday type made famous by Birdman Lindbergh and Flying Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD MOTHER ADVOCATE PULLS IN SKIRTS AND GROWS WINGS | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

...bird propaganda could be more persuasive than Birdman Chapman's own autobiography, published last month.* In it he thus sums up the spirit and purpose of his life: "I had a growing belief, which in time became a religion, in the recreational and spiritual value of close contact with nature, and birds, I was convinced, are nature's most eloquent expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birdmen | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...Birdman Chapman's scientific reputation rests securely on two 700-page volumes on the distribution of bird life in Colombia and Ecuador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birdmen | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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