Word: birdsongs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gloria Perkins, 10, whose mother is a church organist in Queens Village, Long Island, and whose father, Clemmett Birdsong Perkins, is Eastern Passenger Agent for the Norfolk & Western Railway Co., played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the National Symphony in Washington. Gloria is a wispy little girl who wears big hair ribbons and oily black corkscrew curls. She took so long to tune her violin that the audience started to titter. But the feeling rapidly changed as the Concerto got under way. Gloria was not only technically expert but her playing had a simple persuasive quality that touched the audience deeply...
...parents speed up their lagging children, prevent their being tardy at school? Last week Miss Nellie W. Birdsong, psychologist of Maryland State Normal School, told a Child Study Association meeting: "Children too frequently feel themselves the centre of attention when repeated calls are made for them to get up in the morning, to hurry over their dressing and to eat their meals. Flattered, they try to keep the centre of the stage by actions that seem to them to elicit this specific attention. A little seeming indifference on the part of parents and the throwing of more responsibility upon...
...aristocracy of her Virginia town Mrs. Birdsong had become a legendary beauty long before she began to lose her looks. In the best tradition of famous belles she had married George, least eligible, most worthless of all her flocking beaux. George was a charmer, that goes without saying, but he was woman-crazy, could not even draw the color line. The situation was unfortunate but usual. Where Mrs. Birdsong deviated from the human to the holy was in refusing to do anything about it except by straining more & more to be George's ideal. Never natural when George was around...
...hold a wake over a corpse. They knelt simultaneously to pray. The floor gave way; all seven and the corpse fell to the ground. They sued owners of the house for $3,000 apiece, Florence Young for loss of a gold tooth when her face was stepped on, Roberta Birdsong for injuries from sitting on a rusty nail, the others injuries to themselves and the corpse...