Word: clucking
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...discussion gets too heated these days over the Yankees or Bill Buckley's latest diatribe, it is always safe to switch the topic to Harvard's need for a new theatre. If the person is at all interested in cultural matters, the two of you can cluck indignantly over the Corporation's duty to the dramatic arts. If he is not, it means less interruptions. In any event, your concern over the lack of facilities is probably justified...
When the last ceremonies were over and the last toast drunk, the President and el Presidente bade each other a cordial goodbye and adios, and Ike motored 72 miles back to Texas. Laredo's mayor, who is named Hugh Cluck, greeted the weary but still beaming President, and saw him off on the Columbine for the trip back to Washington...
Hearst papers generally gave the story maximum play, while simultaneously cluck-clucking on their editorial pages. Hearst's New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror, which seldom passes up any story with a sex angle, explained to its readers that it ran this "supposedly . . . scientific effort [because] we felt we could not become overpious and fail to publish it." Scripps-Howard editors had local option on how to handle the story, e.g., the San Francisco News ran only an explanation of why it was leaving Kinsey out ("This is adult reading"), while Denver's Rocky Mountain News...
...marriage, Madeleine soon tosses her own moral halo in the dust for a clandestine affair with a young schoolmaster. Rickie's sudden death brings both sisters up short with the sense of mutual loss and mutual widowhood. Novel's end finds the aging sisters reconciled and cluck-clucking over the hard time they gave and got from poor Rickie...
Though ornithologists cluck over the inaccuracies, John James Audubon's bird paintings have earned him a cozy nest in art history. His animal paintings are not so well known, and his sons-two able artists who grew up under J.J.'s great wing and stayed in his shadow-are practically forgotten. The three Audubons' major work was a series of 150 "Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America," begun in 1842 and finished six years later. Son Victor did the landscape backgrounds for many of them, and son John W. painted 72 of the animals themselves. The entire...