Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should get back to Louisiana that the Senators are sitting here this evening listening to me, after I had been speaking for seven hours- Arizona's Ashurst: Is it not true that the Senator's present popularity is about as great as that of a cuckoo clock in a boys' dormitory at 3 o'clock in the morning...
...happy as a cuckoo bird. I'm the tiger of the underbrush!" cried he. "I'm terribly bad tempered with bad tempered persons, but a lamb with the lambs, and just with the just...
...community was strongly Gentile, still seething from the Dreyfus affair. In his home Bloch learned Jewish melodies, Jewish lore. There was money enough for him to study for a time in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris. Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk were the Israel Symphony, the Psalms, the Trois Poemes Juifs, Schelomo, music which the French...
...mate had been caught and died inside, and that the cock robin was obsessed with the thought of getting inside to look for her, but when we opened the window he shifted his attack to the upper panes. We were forced to the unhappy conclusion that the robin was cuckoo...
Because Sir Thomas Beecham is in Manhattan now, conducting the Philharmonic Symphony, he had no hand in performing the Songs of Farewell. But with the Philharmonic he played three of Delius' best-known works: Brigg Fair, Summer Night on the River, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring...