Word: buzzard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terrified by the appearance of what she thought was a buzzard at her window, an apartment dweller in Manhattan's West 58th Street one morning last week called police...
Lion's Budget. More of a buzzard than a lion in face and figure, the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, is nonetheless the lion of Britain's general election. With his famed "balanced budget" now a symbol of the National Government's successful stewardship, the beak-nosed and scrawny Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke last week as a complacent treasurer who expects soon to float a $1,000,000,000 British rearmament loan without so much as flurrying the market. "There is not a single small country in Europe," Mr. Chamberlain declared, "which did not breathe a sigh...
...representative of the promise of American music. There are songs such as "Woman is a Sometime Thing", "I got Plenty o' Nuttin'", and "It ain't Necessarily So", which have a haunting melodic appeal and seem destined for considerable popularity. And there are themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...
...Blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Lily Greatbatch, the woman who plucked a feather from the tail of a Whipsnade ostrich, beamed cheerfully at me today when I asked her why she did it. Her offense had cost her a £1 fine and 10s. costs at Leighton Buzzard, Beds, earlier...
...courage and are back on the firing line." Such were the words, prescient of Democratic defeat, spoken at the East Side High School at Paterson, N. J., by Republican Walter Evans Edge who, as a U. S. Senator (1919-29) used to flap his elbows up & down like a buzzard in flight every time he made a speech. Date of the utterance: a fortnight before that November day in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt carried 42 of the 48 states of the Union...