Word: chirp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day some 50,000 New Yorkers spend a nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...
...DOMESTICUS OR GRYLLUS NEGLECTUS REQUIRED FOR SPECIAL SONG NUMBER IN NEW LAUREL & HARDY MUSICAL FILM SWISS MISS STOP ALL CALIFORNIA CRICKETS RECORD IN B-FLAT STOP WE NEED ONE IN KEY OF G TO FIT THE VOICE RANGE OF WALTER WOOLF KING STOP IF POSSIBLE SHOULD BE ONE-BEAT CHIRP IN FOUR-FOUR TIME...
Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after day they searched for it high & low without success. Then one day the school manager heard the piping behind him, turned and beheld its astonishing source-a small, greyish brown mouse...
10th. Lord, these little birds! How early they do rise and chirp and with them all the Tower. So I up too, and awhile to watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato...
...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...