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KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kipling's Song | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...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

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVES TAMMANII | 11/12/1925 | See Source »

...winter song is much more vigorous, but as the birds seldom sing the song is not well known. Our present visitors have uttered no sound but a rather plain. live chirp and a wild though sweet call note...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Visitors. | 1/13/1893 | See Source »

...BURNING August afternoon on Lake Winnepesaukee, hardly a ripple stirred, no sound of life but the monotonous chirp-chirp from the woody shores, and the lapsing water-beats on the white sand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPTER III. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

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