Word: buzzards
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...representative of the promise of American music. There are songs such as "Woman is a Sometime Thing", "I got Plenty o' Nuttin'", and "It ain't Necessarily So", which have a haunting melodic appeal and seem destined for considerable popularity. And there are themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...
...Blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Lily Greatbatch, the woman who plucked a feather from the tail of a Whipsnade ostrich, beamed cheerfully at me today when I asked her why she did it. Her offense had cost her a £1 fine and 10s. costs at Leighton Buzzard, Beds, earlier...
...courage and are back on the firing line." Such were the words, prescient of Democratic defeat, spoken at the East Side High School at Paterson, N. J., by Republican Walter Evans Edge who, as a U. S. Senator (1919-29) used to flap his elbows up & down like a buzzard in flight every time he made a speech. Date of the utterance: a fortnight before that November day in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt carried 42 of the 48 states of the Union...
...years ago in Wisconsin a hard-working cartoonist named Carl Anderson sweated over an idea for a drawing he hoped to sell the Saturday Evening Post. Slowly, painfully the idea took form as a swaybacked, pot-bellied horse and two small boys. One boy was bald as a buzzard. The other boy lifted him up until his naked pate pressed against the horse's sagging belly. Asked the second boy, "Does your head feel warmer now, Henry...
When another of his men, buzzard-bald Thomas Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, broke with Boss Long six months ago, the Louisiana "Kingfish" was less delighted. Last week he began his battle for revenge, a titan struggle of political machines, a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can with the courts, the national guard, the police, machine guns, radio and bad names as weapons. Point of the fight: Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept...