Word: blackbirding
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...Monday night Mr. Lew Leslie, of Blackbird fame brought his last season's review, "Rhapsody in Black" to the Majestic Theatre. If any indication can be gained from the opening night it will be fairly easy to predict that the show will have a good run in Boston. The audience, of which the coloured part was the most demonstrative, fairly brought down the house, augmenting its thunderous applause with the more violent forms of public demonstration, i.e., stamping, whistling and shouting. That this was not deserved will be hard to dispute, but the production did not measure...
...Hartley Stock Farms at Page in Cass County, N. Dak., won first junior heifer with Blackbird of Page and first prize two-year old bull with Eventuation of Page in the Black Angus class. These two animals were both grand champions at the American Royal held at Kansas City recently...
...Gull. It was fat in body with graceful curving wings. Bonney followed the bird principle, abandoned the aileron, or balancing contrivance which airplane designers have always considered an essential feature of stability in the air. His plane had new features: an expanding and contracting tail, like a blackbird's, for varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's when flying level; a varying angle of incidence to its wings, so that they could turn sideways into the wind on landing, and let him drop onto a landing field...
...souse did more to boost him into tardy fame than a dozen "Ravens" would have done and in so doing is but illustrating the fact that to the average fellow in his senses the capacities of a notorious tosspot are more entertaining than the carryings on of some halfwit blackbird escaped from a nearby bird fancier's shop...
Pack up all my care and wee Here I go, singing low, Bye, bye, blackbird...