Word: bluebird
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...When the bluebird mates with the woodpecker...
...dirty little shack by a worn-out copper mine near the crest of the Bluebird Range in Montana, lives an old man with tobacco juice in his beard, holes in his shoes and memories in his head. His name is Bill Martin. He is a mine caretaker, sometimes a sheepherder, virtually a beggar. When he was young, he says, he prospected for silver and copper with a fellow called Bill Clark, formally named William A. Clark. Together they found metal, a lot of metal. Bill Martin drank up and gambled away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept...
...Windsor had landed with one wing afire. The blaze was extinguished. Regretfully Flyers Clarence Schiller and Phil Wood took from the ship a wreath marked "Nungesser-Coli" which they had hoped to drop as a memorial into the vast grey sea. ¶For nearly a mile a huge Farman Bluebird snorted and rolled, gathering speed at Le Bourget Field, Paris. It rose, surprising some, for it weighed twelve tons. It was the largest ship yet to attempt the transatlantic flight. It rose slowly. Vainly Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu, French flyers, tried to put it above 1,000 feet. Pointing...
...rushed, planted a spiked pole, and released all available springs. Sabin Carr of Yale had set a new mark for indoor pole-vaulters to shoot at. He had come within ⅞ in. of Charles Hoff's supreme effort-which did not count because Mr. Hoff is a professional. Bluebird. In a Bluebird on the Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Capt. Malcolm Campbell broke the world's automobile record for a kilometre and for a mile, from a flying start. His speed: 174.883 miles per hour for the kilometre, 174 for the mile...
...Thames Williamson-Small, Maynard (2.50). "The gypsy watches sky and earth, and both are lately swiftly changing. The heavens are day by day more tender, the air more soft-sweeter, my people. For a week the wind has ridden from the south, and with it the note of the bluebird, which is the note of springtime...