Word: warbler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McDowell: Yes, I am. By the way, Mr. Hiss, did you ever see a prothonotary warbler...
...prothonotary warbler. He said he had seen one around Glen Echo (near the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal outside Washington...
...considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment recall the passage." Said Gilbert: "I have just invented it, and jolly good Shakespeare...
Deanna hasn't successfully graduated from the teen-age singing sensation stage, with the possible exception of "The Amazing Mrs. Holliday." And from Mrs. Holliday to Christmas Holiday, the proof is fairly conclusive that perhaps the wistful and appealing warbler should stop trying to graduate, turn over a new leaf, and start warbling all over again. Or perhaps you like the wistful type--and maybe you like Kelly's broad Irish smile. In any event, they don't belong in a psychological chiller-diller-thriller...
...hired hands have worked hard to give us a new slant on the old hick-meets-city-girl situation. This version has Gary Cooper as a musty grammarian who goes to the masses in search of live vernacular. Inevitably, he meets Barbara Stanwyck, who is a night-club warbler with Gene Krupa's orchestra. She talks a Hollywoodish brand of slang that will leave even the boys from Lindy's open-mouthed...