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Word: cockatoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual titanic, reports from Still-man Infirmary indicated that all was not well in the Lampoon camp. Apparently suffering from an overdoes of a mysterious oriental drug, the Poonsters were lying on beds of pair tonight. "We were tricked,' groaned Oliveyl Q"isling, relief hurler. "I suspect Deceitful Cockatoo of feeding the team some poisoned rhubarbs at the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Scoffs at Training Rules Before Dital Tilt | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...will be on hand to peddle programs and hawk peanuts before the game. WE THEY Fiend, Wis72820 Farwell D. Smith ocC Farb, the Desperate, clum $imons, .05 Quislin, 7 Stupor, tilt Solmssen, ugh Photographer (sic) Cabot to Burrhaid, ng Lowell to Peron, old pro God. Bellylaff, yuk Cheers, 2 Cockatoo, awk Tiger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frahious Crimeds Spread Napkins Today Make Ready to Caste of This Meat, 23-2 | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

Misogynist. In Philadelphia, a cockatoo named Scratch-Patch picked open the lock of his cage (where he lived with six lady cockatoos), moved to another cage, where he pried open the door and moved in with eight bachelor parrots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Married. Mignon Eberhart, 47, whodunit hatcher (The White Cockatoo, The Patient in Room 18); and John P. H. Perry, 64, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Co.; both for the second time; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Married. Mary Morrison, 20, only child of Britain's cockatoo-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison; and Horace Williams, son of forthright, Ascot-tied Labor M.P. and joint Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture Tom Williams; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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