Word: blackbirding
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Came the army to London singing a new version of the U. S. ditty "Bye Bye, Blackbird...
...white lie. You can't blame Fall very much for that. He would have had a yellow streak a foot wide if he hadn't tried to protect his old friend after all Doheny had done for him." Then the jurors paused for dinner, sang "Bye, Bye, Blackbird," argued, turned on the phonograph, argued, slept, argued. . . . At 9:30 a.m., another ballot was taken. The vote was unanimous for acquittal...
...Blackbird. Limehouse naturally gives Lon Chaney a chance to disguise himself with grotesquerie well calculated to frighten little children. Part of the time he is a benevolent bishop. Renee Adoree, the French girl of The Big Parade, is the heroine, capably enough. Mr. Chaney is always good, and his pictures are never watered with too obvious and too usual melodramatic sentiment...
...levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...
Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle...