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...Charlotte the parrot. Parrot Charlotte is a 40-year-old bird that H. M. bought in Port Said when he was in the navy. In her youth Charlotte had a loud and penetrating voice, knew a variety of nautical terms and a smattering of French, and used to frighten visitors to Buckingham Palace by suddenly screaming "WELL WHAT ABAHT IT?" Lately she has grown morose, likes to sit on the King's shoulder at breakfast time cracking sunflower seeds...
...short term obligations to meet before May 1 when municipal taxes are due. Money could not be raised in the public market where city bonds were selling as low as 78. For a week "Jimmy" Walker went through a series of elaborate political contortions, in an attempt to frighten the bankers with a club called Humanity. Then he calmed himself. And then Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner, Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank and Winthrop Williams Aldrich of Chase National Bank entered into a series of private discussions. Mayor Walker met them in a variety of places including...
Black Tower tries to frighten you with the antics of a maniacal physician who has a gallery full of corpses, mummified and glace-coated, to which he wishes to add a young girl he has picked up. And fails. Co-author is Lora Baxter, who appeared last week in The Animal Kingdom (see above...
...economies devised by the Athletic Association to frighten the wolf away, those which eliminate activities causing such superfluous expense as the baseball trip are most to be desired. True, expensive training trips by baseball and hockey squads during vacation periods have long been accepted drains on Princeton's athletic cupboard and only a few have lifted up their heads in complaint. But it seems that this year when utility becomes the true determining factor, the baseball trip is to be lopped off, as unnecessary, and we might add, extravagant and point-less...
Denver's zoo is not far from Capitol Hill, where solid Denver citizens have their homes. Such citizens Zoo Superintendent Clyde Hill would not wish to offend. But last week he sent them an ultimatum. A pack of dogs was prowling nightly through the zoo grounds, frightening the animals. One night they had killed a deer. Superintendent Hill had seen two police dogs, two bird dogs, one collie. All looked like nice, well bred dogs. He fired blank cartridges to frighten them away, but they returned. Unless Capitol Hill residents chained their dogs, said Superintendent Hill...