Word: warbler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prettily, but give the Moviegoor Deanna Durbin every time after the latter's performance in "100 Men and a Girl." Frome one who suffers from a definite aversion to child prodigies in any form, it is definitely disconcorting to have to award the palm to a fourteen year old warbler of the most unsophisticated type...
Despite the fact that he went to the Harvard School of Business Accounting, warbler Dick Powell, who takes the part of the wealthy scion of the Ames family in "Colleen", does not realize that six and nine make 15 until Ruby Keeler, of the baby voice and muscular legs, reminds him of that fact. From this start a beautiful friendship grows until we find these two winsome lovers, Donald and Colleen, united after tremendous difficulties in the same clinch which so pleased old maids and unrequited lovers in "Forty-Second Street", "Annapolis Farewell", and "The Gold Diggers...
Professor Pierce has also listened to other noises besides crickets', including the song of newly-hatched robins, which he reports to be longest at 15,000 vibrations per second, and the black pole warbler which emits sounds at about 15,000 per second. The ultimate object of this series of experiments is to study and classify the sounds in nature and if possible to determine whether or not they serve for communication...
...exaggerate and dramatize his birds, "Rex" Brasher has spent most of his 65 years tramping across fields, swamps, beaches, spying on birds and recording their habits in soft, warm colors that suggest Japanese prints. Son of amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher who gave his name to the Brasher Warbler, he got his art training in Tiffany & Co.'s engraving department and from a Portland, Me. photo-engraver. For stay-at-home ornithologists and bird lovers he has made 100 twelve-volume sets of reproductions, each colored by hand. These sets sell for $2,500 each. Among the purchasers...
...amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher (for whom the Brasher warbler was named), Rex early heard his father's criticisms of the famed Audubon bird plates which often carry naturalism, composition and color beyond the point of probability. In 1879, aged 10, Rex Brasher decided to paint all the birds in North America himself. After his father died, he learned taxidermy, went to St. Francis College (Brooklyn) and at 15 to work in the engraving department of Tiffany & Co. No longer prosperous was his family, whose founder, according to the family legend, had come to Manhattan in 1621 as the wealthy...