Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owner of the famous talking budgerigar, Blue Boy, my attention was naturally arrested by your Bill and Coo Cinema review [TIME, April...
...speak of these remarkable birds as "midget parrots." They are, of course, of the parrot family, but their correct name is shell parakeet or budgerigar . . . These remarkable birds . . . can not only be trained to act but to talk as well. My bird, Blue Boy, has a vocabulary of over 400 words which have been distinctly understood by many of his visitors...
...Alley publishers are already thinking about grinding up five other songs he wrote (Nature Boy is one of a suite of six). They don't always like his lyrics, but they can fix that. Sample (from Brother Song...
...suggestion that the Germans (even hard-working Leni) had anything to do with the film; the distributors are taking no chances with U.S. public opinion. By shrewd editing, a 260-minute heil to German athletic prowess has been reduced to a 92-minute rah-rah for the All-American boy...
...singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such near-Rover Boy leadership paid off in the clutch...