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Word: chirruped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curly, cherubic Moylan Sisters, Peggy Joan, 5, and Marianne, 7, are radio veterans (two years) who chirrup in close, cricket harmony Sunday afternoons over NBC for Thrive, a dog food ("We feed our doggie Thrive, he's very much alive-o"). Last Sunday Peggy Joan and Marianne put their brown heads together and told the world just what they wanted from Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Santa | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

York a fat, hastily contrived newspaper decorated with random earmarks of the dead Worlds. This was the evening World-Telegram. Before noon the Telegram's telephone operators had learned to chirrup: "World-Telegram." In the combined paper were Will Johnstone's and Dennis Wortman's (Metropolitan Movies) cartoons. It was announced that Cartoonist Rollin Kirby and Book Critic Harry Hansen would be retained too. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann confirmed reports that he was going to retire. Colyumist F. P. A., who might have led a heavy following to the World-Telegram, instead "went home" to the Herald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: World's End | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...windows of Carfax Abbey, close to which most of the action takes place. Dracula is an exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought to be but a cut above the ordinary trapdoor-and-winding-sheet type of mystery film. Silliest sound: Helen Chandler's feeble soprano chirrup uttered repeatedly as an indication of superhuman fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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