Word: birding
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...voice has in some ways improved. She sang well as the mechanical bird in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. She piped prettily through Mignon. But her big music has been little, the real art of singing something she has never seemed to grasp...
...less facile at repartee, which Young Bob turns off almost automatically. When they were children, their oldest sister, Fola LaFollette, found small Robert sitting gloomily on the porch. She asked what the trouble was. He explained that Philip and the other sister, Mary, had found a little dead bird and were having a funeral for it. He had been crying because "they wouldn't let me come to the funeral. They said I'd laugh...
...feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...
...Near Cincinnati lately, on the estate of Julius Fleischmann Jr., a Mrs. Rockefeller tried trapshooting for the first time. She was surprised and pleased to see one "bird" after another disintegrate as fast and often as she pulled trigger. Those present kept it a secret from Mrs. Rockefeller that behind her while she was shooting stood a crack shot who, each time she cried, "Pull," took aim at the sailing pigeons, waited, shot when she did. Not even persons long used to shooting shotguns can detect by ear the shooting of another shotgun almost simultaneously with their...
...Italian sings like a bird in order to live himself out, he paints because he has to, he writes poetry or commits murder because he cannot help it. Finally he embraces Fascism, dazzled by its deification of heroism, and this principle is the highest by which nations can live...