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...Scotland April Fooling is called "hunting the gowk" (cuckoo). Last week on All Fool's Day His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons made of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a prime cuckoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cuckooed Conservative | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Season's Crop | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Word Game | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...should get back to Louisiana that the Senators are sitting here this evening listening to me, after I had been speaking for seven hours- Arizona's Ashurst: Is it not true that the Senator's present popularity is about as great as that of a cuckoo clock in a boys' dormitory at 3 o'clock in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Feet to Fire | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...happy as a cuckoo bird. I'm the tiger of the underbrush!" cried he. "I'm terribly bad tempered with bad tempered persons, but a lamb with the lambs, and just with the just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Happy as a Cuckoo | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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