Word: chirrup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detroit's chances were destroyed by a characteristic chirrup from Senator Moses of New Hampshire. With an eye cocked at wet Ontario across the river from Detroit, Senator Moses said: "It would be the first time anyone was ever nominated for President on foreign soil...
Little boats with long arms and needle bodies leaped like water-spiders along the glassy Schuylkill at Philadelphia. Some were grandfather spiders, with eight arms and a monotonous chirrup-" 'Roak, 'Roak, 'Roak"; others, tiny creatures whose two arms seemed scarcely to impinge upon the mirror of that dreaming river, so swiftly, so skilfully did they compete in the Annual Regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen...
George Gershwin, 27, was born in Brooklyn. At an early age, he contributed to the music of a rickety, rollicking, tenement street, at first with infantile muling, later with a stout, pubescent chirrup. He skinned his knees in the gutters of this street; he nourished himself smearily with its bananas; he broke its dirty windows and eluded its brass-and-blue clothed curator. When he was 13, his mother purchased a piano...