Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sane" art; in Chicago. Mrs. Logan was much perturbed when the generous art prize she and her husband had endowed for 18 years went to Doris Lee's gently caricatural Thanksgiving in 1935. She thereupon dedicated a society for "Sanity in Art" to the proposition that "The 'Cuckoo of Publicity' has laid the egg of a new 'dodo bird' in the hard nest of art," thereafter purred contentedly at her own safe & sane exhibits. She was a cofounder of the American College of Surgeons...
...Yugoslavia's Prince Paul from Kenya to South Africa. Before Mr. Eden could reply, Commander Locker-Lampson asked "from what medical disability was Captain Cunningham-Reid suffering when he left England in the Blitz?" Captain Cunningham-Reid warmly remarked that Commander Locker-Lampson reminded him of "a cuckoo which makes a nuisance of itself in other people's nests...
...cuckoo's egg in TIME'S nest, if there ever was one-"she-Marines" [June...
...staff at Stoner Creek, the Hertzes' Kentucky farm, had their hands full. Count Fleet was mischievous, willful. During a morning breeze he used to stop suddenly and paw the air. He walked sideways, jumped over his shadow, bucked his riders off. Stable boys nicknamed him Count Cuckoo...
From two different villages on the Isle of Wight came reports to the "Nature Correspondent" of the Times of the first spring cuckoo. In the National Gallery an exhibit entitled "Rebuilding Britain" showed flea-sized houses with modern flying buttresses. Britons looked, muttered: "No scullery, no privacy...