Word: cuckooed
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Then nine-year-old Michael Spivak (whose father is concertmaster of the orchestra) gravely led the musicians through two movements of Haydn's "Toy" Symphony. At the proper moments, a two-note "cuckoo" chirped from the orchestra. It was Sir Ernest, on the ocarina...
...this summer the serpent has been popping up with cuckoo-clock regularity. Since July 2, some 30 people (including Republicans and teetotalers) have found themselves staring at his periscope-like head. The first witnesses conservatively discussed the serpent in secrecy and only among their closest friends. But Thomas L. Rogers, auditor of a stodgy Boise firm, boldly talked for publication after the serpent sloshed past his rowboat...
...Cuckoo." Brown-eyed Mrs. Barnes's version of her deal with Uncle Bertie: she offered him the stock at his own price, and he "hit the ceiling." When she told him she was going to give away the money, he said she was "completely cuckoo." He insisted on long, legalistic negotiations to set the stock's value. Finally he was speaking to her only through her lawyer. "I already disliked Uncle," she says, "but after that I really hated him. And that was before I came to understand what the Tribune was spreading...
...sane" art; in Chicago. Mrs. Logan was much perturbed when the generous art prize she and her husband had endowed for 18 years went to Doris Lee's gently caricatural Thanksgiving in 1935. She thereupon dedicated a society for "Sanity in Art" to the proposition that "The 'Cuckoo of Publicity' has laid the egg of a new 'dodo bird' in the hard nest of art," thereafter purred contentedly at her own safe & sane exhibits. She was a cofounder of the American College of Surgeons...
...Yugoslavia's Prince Paul from Kenya to South Africa. Before Mr. Eden could reply, Commander Locker-Lampson asked "from what medical disability was Captain Cunningham-Reid suffering when he left England in the Blitz?" Captain Cunningham-Reid warmly remarked that Commander Locker-Lampson reminded him of "a cuckoo which makes a nuisance of itself in other people's nests...