Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diavolo" Auber *Scherzo, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssphn *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss -- *"The Animals' Carnival," Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion, Cocks and Hens, Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals), Tortoises. The Elephant, Kangaroos, Personages with long ears, The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest, Planists, The Swan (Solo xioloncello, J. Langendoen), Finale. Planes: Jesus Maria Sauroma Leo Litwin Prize Song from "Die Meisteringer von Nurnberg Wagner *"Pathetic" Symphony, No. 6 Tchaikovaky Third movement--Alegro molto vivace -- *Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert *Song of the Volga Bargemen Arr. by Glasennov...
...Scotland April Fooling is called "hunting the gowk" (cuckoo). Last week on All Fool's Day His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons made of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a prime cuckoo...
Good-humoredly asserted Cuckoo Baldwin: "The members may go away less dissatisfied if they remember that they have just passed two conflicting votes and that it is the first of April." Given time to think it over, Prime Minister Baldwin reflected that even a freak defeat of his Government might look bad with European politics in their present state. Turning earnest next day, he announced that Miss Wilkinson's resolution would be redebated, voted on this week by a full House, the division to be counted as a vote of confidence or lack of confidence in the Government...
...violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...
Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...