Word: macaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx...
...ready to start her next picture (Queen Christina). Also signed up for one prizefight picture was Heavyweight Challenger Max Baer. Still addicted to all-star casts, MGM was ready to release Dinner at Eight which contains almost every performer on the lot except John Barrymore's macaw. RKO promised Sinclair Lewis' Ann Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought the rights to Music in the Air, planned a series of shorts made from old nickelodeon cinemas. Paramount ballyhooed...
...little brothers &; sisters the birds, St. Francis of Assisi used to preach. Dr. Eckstein, more catholic, includes in his audience, besides parrots, canaries, a pigeon and a macaw, cats, rats, three turtles, a Portuguese gardener and a million cockroaches. More modern than the Saint, the Doctor does no preaching, though he talks seriously to mischief-makers now & then...
...schooled at her father's knee and at Barnard College. At three she went with him to the polls to watch him vote straight Republican. When little Miss Sarah congratulated President Roosevelt on his birthday, he sent her a thank-you note illustrated with sketches of a macaw and of his daughter "Princess Alice." Later Miss Butler helped entertain notables. Today she is Vice Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee, a position she attained by hard political work from her election district up. Tall and dark, she stumps the State for her party, sounds off on "issues" like...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...