Word: jaybird
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trembling with pyrotechnical explosions. Essie marries a xylophone player who comes around one day. She also devotes much of her time to the commercial manufacture of "Love Dreams," a candy, and the study of toe dancing. She and the rest of the irresponsible, carefree household are happy as a jaybird with a worm until suddenly Granddaughter Alice Sycamore (Margot Stevenson) becomes painfully aware of the family's prodigious eccentricity because she and her highly conventional employer's son, Tony Kirby, fall in love...
...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for which modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...
...expansive as his face, many a Sweitzer friend could hardly believe the news. A few recalled that, on a salary of $9,000 a year, he had run through a long series of spectacular business failures. But Bob Sweitzer himself made a great show of unconcern. Blithe as a jaybird with a worm, he continued going to afternoon baseball games, banquets, told newshawks: "I'm not worried, only annoyed. I will ask for a reasonable time to check the audit. . . . There are some controversial items...