Word: macaw
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...once discouraged a visit from CBS's Person to Person show, which he describes as "kinda nosy." He prefers to keep the place to himself, his wife Georgia, his 13-year-old daughter Valentina, and three servants. Also on the premises: a stuffed gorilla, five dogs, a macaw, and a parrot that occupies a refrigerator during spells of warm weather...
Bingo-Bango-Bungo. With his new riches, Billy began to gild the Rose. He acquired a fancy flat, a new wardrobe, a valet, an ornamental but vicious green macaw. In 1924, he got still another source of income: the Backstage Club, a little "speak" which he established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired...
...past two months, Rosita Royce has confronted sightseers at the White Way Casino of the New York World's Fair. They ogled her while she strip-teased to the point where her costume consisted mainly of seven doves or alternately of a cockatoo called "Silly Billy" and a macaw named "Red." One day last week she was asked to give an eleventh performance. She indignantly refused. Said she: "The doves are worn out. I care more for their health than...
Adrian sleeps in one of the biggest beds in Hollywood under a vaulting canopy, has 12-ft. divans in his house, coffee tables sizable enough for billiards, gives his friends as many as a dozen Christmas presents, keeps three pet monkeys and a macaw. Last year he married tiny Janet Gaynor, having previously styled her with bright carrot-colored hair (and her mother with blue hair). He recently popped a surprise by announcing that he was designing maternity clothes for his wife, a nursery wing for his sprawling Spanish house...
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...