Word: cuckooed
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...precisely 8:25 every morning except Sunday last week, the employes of the First National Bank of Pikeville, Ky. entered the bank through a side door, filed past a chiming cuckoo clock, gathered in the directors' room. There Bookkeeper Mary Clark seated herself at a shiny electric organ and began a service consisting of a hymn, ten Bible verses, a short but earnest homily. The homily was delivered by stout, expansive, 39-year-old John Marvin Yost, the bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever...
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...Frindsbury, England, 20-year-old Postman Harry Cuckoo was arrested, put on probation for two years for throwing away Christmas cards and letters, instead of delivering them. Harry Cuckoo's defense: "I found it hard to find my way about . . . there was thick snow on the ground...
Stuck away in Manhattan's drowsing East 27th Street is an old, cuckoo-clock, three-story building. Once it was a haunted private house, later, among other things, a Knights of Columbus hall, an Armenian church. Since 1915 it has been a theatre, since 1923 (except for one season) a free...
...Grainger *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mikado," Selection Sullivan *"Londondery Air" Arranged by Grainger *The Animals' Carnival, Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals) Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Personages with long ears The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest Pianists The Swan (Solo Violoncello: J. Langendoen) Finale Pianos: Jesus Maria Sanroma Leo Litwin *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *To a Wild Rose MacDowell *"Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...