Word: chirped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event in rhyme, a Manhattan tabloid carried what newspapermen call the classic headline of all time: KING'S CANARY WILL NOT CHIRP...
KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP...
...band are not absolute necessities. In fact Mr. Arlen would not abide them. He would do just what a certain critic did the other night, only more so. Which after all as the birds which nest on the towers of Our Lady of the Evening would complacently chirp is something
...proverb about the success of the early bird in the quest of the wily norm, Tammany should have its way in the National Democratic Convention of 1928: for already, long before the dawn of the next presidential campaign, that organization's representatives are beginning to flit about and chirp noisily. The first flight, of course, has been southward. where the game is biggest, although most elusive...