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Bluebird. Only bluebird to chirp out in the committee's gloom was Director Walter Sherman Gifford of the President's own Unemployment Relief Organization. "I am still unable to find any grounds," he declared doggedly, ''for questioning the effectiveness of local, county and State public and private agencies and the thousands of voluntary committees and organizations to meet the present emergency...
...March of Time." My radio fan-age began 'way back in 1911- when only the staccato chirp of the code could be transmitted. I remember building my first "coherer" set, using filings from the milled edges of a nickel and a quarter...
...John Masefield can, it is to be hoped, pluck the lyre of the Empire with greater else than some of his predecessors. The late Robert Bridges often refused to sing; may his successor follow the same path. There are more things for a Laureate to do than merely to chirp either at the royal or even the national behest. The position is as much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet in his place, the loss would be greater than the world...
...appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world-Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less than a year ago he published The Testament of Beauty, a 4,000-line poem which summed up his patriarchal philosophy, earned the great admiration of most world critics...
...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...