Word: cluckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...filed its final report last week, the Senate Crime Investigating Committee issued a major new warning: if the U.S. does not do more than cluck with alarm at the spread of narcotics addiction, a whole generation of U.S. youth will face a terrifying danger. Just as big-time gangsters turned from bootlegging to gambling after repeal, the Senators predicted, the gamblers now feeling the heat of the committee's investigation will "unquestionably" turn to the tremendous profits of dope...
...Deep concern" (in diplomatic talk, midway between a cluck-cluck and a posture of anxious finger-wagging) was not otherwise apparent in the President's behavior. His other problems were itchy and only skin-deep. Under his jauntiness, there had recently been a note of weariness. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham, announced from the yacht that the President was in "swell shape." But the President had been troubled with a nasty head rash, which showed pink above his ears and caused him to reduce the frequency of his haircuts...
...Barkio (Spike Jones; Victor). The City Slickers do a bumptious doghouse lampoon of Arditi's coloratura favorite, Il Bacio. For all their hectic enthusiasm, it falls far short of Clara Cluck's classic henhouse version of the same old standard...
...bluntest possible way, he had also shown that he was no man to break bread with a Red and like it. And except for the Reds and their friends, no one could work up much indignation over the governor's manners. Even the professionally proper could only cluck disapprovingly. "What he said was entirely true," said the Times, "but there is a time and place for everything...