Word: cooing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride, an ambitious pianist, at a music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that even Henry Honneybun, a bakery driver who had been the earl's batman during the war, got a rousing cheer when...
...peace, they bill and coo...
...pump really work. For girls, there is an electric vacuum sweeper that sweeps, and scores of stuffed animals and dolls that demonstrate one or another fact of life. There are hens that lay and pregnant dogs and rabbits whose offspring tumble out of zippered stomachs. There are dolls that coo when patted and cry when spanked and eat crackers (removable from a hole in the neck). There is even one which blows bubbles and, if "burped" like a baby, promptly burps...
...owner of the famous talking budgerigar, Blue Boy, my attention was naturally arrested by your Bill and Coo Cinema review [TIME, April...
...Bill and Coo (Republic), after assuring you of your sanity in a well-advised prologue (with a glimpse of Producer Ken Murray and a couple of other human beings), settles down to its real business and drifts serenely out of this world. The actors and extras, in this astounding film are 200-odd birds - mostly midget parrots. The bird actors whistle, or appear to whistle, jazz obbligati. They wear bow ties and little hats, operate a streetcar, a taxi and a hook-&-ladder. They live, it is painful to report, in a town called Chirpendale, whose main intersection is Birdway...