Word: bluebird
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...spring fever be blamed upon the approach of April, so may the hour examinations. These more or less Jucid intervals of spasmodic scribbling follow closely upon the first bluebird and drift along until the new blades of grass anounce the deadline. At the present moment, any student carrying the normal, any student carrying the normal burden of courses probably has an hour examination or so both before and behind him, and several right under his feet...
...from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...
...wanderlust" gets into everyone's blood to a greater or lesser degree and no Maeterlinck Bluebird idea of happiness or Carlyle gospel of work are of much avail to keep it in check. Once a man gets the desire to tuck his "trouser-ends into his boots" and go off to the far corners of the earth, he will go and continue to go until he develops a definite purpose to hold him back...
...Yonder a bluebird flits and sings...
...still the bluebird sweetly sings...