Word: cuckooed
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Thomas: (a cuckoo) is heard) By God, a cuckoo! Grief and God. A canting cuckoo, that laugh with no smile! A world unable to die sits on and on In spring sunlight, hatching egg after...
Once upon a time a writer's autobiography was his swan song. But these days authors are in such a hurry to chronicle themselves that the average autobiography sounds more like the first cuckoo in spring. If the trend keeps up, it will soon be only a very old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud who will begin his career without first completing his Life...
...usually 20 marks ($5), but in at least one case it was as high as 250. Some mothers even sent their children into the streets to lure the G.I.s home: "Nice warm Stube with big bed, Joe." Among themselves, the burghers began to call their rented rooms Kuckuckquartiere (cuckoo quarters). Celle was beginning to be known elsewhere in Germany as "Veronica Town...
...dismantlement would continue, but that actual removals would cease until a U.S. committee of experts had examined the case of each plant with this question in mind: Will it contribute most to EGA if left here or if taken elsewhere? Mr. Hoffman mentioned the case of a plant making cuckoo clocks. "Personally, I'm in favor of letting the Germans make cuckoo clocks...
...fields, like the others, were pungent with the smell of freshly plowed earth. In Kew Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used to do a nightingale," he added...