Word: chirpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...