Word: heathman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland, crippled onetime Singer Leonard Taylor, who has judged shows from Montreal to San Diego, had 200 birds to listen to. Until Judge Taylor was ready to hear them, the birds were kept in a darkened bedroom of Portland's Heathman Hotel, occasionally fed oily black rape seed that their voices might be mellow. By teams of four, then singly, Judge Taylor had them brought into another room, where bright light made them burst into song. If they were reticent, he shook a wooden rattle, coaxed, "Come on, boy." Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults...
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