Word: birdsongs
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Advice to Wooers. Edison couldn't hear the roaring of a train, but when two women who were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...
...Apple, at Knoxville and Little Springs and Bogue Chitto, something more was in the air than a January breeze. Hard-eyed white men got out their guns, went hunting in the swamps along the Homochitto River. Mistuh P. A. Cooper and his bloodhounds arrived from Brandon. Major T. B. Birdsong brought a troop of National Guardsmen. A hunt was on for two black bucks who supposedly had killed a white constable. A cold, scared Negro whose feet were cased in gunnysacks showed himself to a posse, got peppered with birdshot, vanished into the swamps. Over at Prentiss in Jefferson Davis...
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...