Word: blackbirds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Came the army to London singing a new version of the U. S. ditty "Bye Bye, Blackbird...
Pack up all my care and wee Here I go, singing low, 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...