Word: parrot
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...adventures on Lake Titicaca (between Peru and Bolivia); 2) the stormy flight of a young Chilean mail plane named Pedro; 3) Goofy (Disney's canine cowboy) as an Argentine gaucho; 4) a "Water Color of Brazil" that introduces a brand-new Disney character, Jose Carioca, a dapper Brazilian parrot, who is as superior to Donald Duck as the Duck was to Mickey Mouse...
Pilots back from Guadalcanal last week told a tall bird story. A marine, they said, captured a wild parrot and taught it to shout: "Hello, Joe!" as greeting to any Jap. He took the parrot to the front lines, where it shouted the greeting all day. Other parrots, free in the jungle, learned the greeting. Soon the jungle behind the Jap lines resounded with nerve-racking U.S. accents: "Hello, Joe! ... Hello, Joe! . . . Hello...
...later years Caroline Webster sometimes watered a redheaded parrot in the belief that it was a geranium. But when she reached England with the statesman she always calls "Mr. W," she was still in her prime and determined to miss nothing. England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes." Wrote Philosopher Carlyle to Emerson: "He is a magnificent specimen...
They left their home for the second time in their lives to make their first appearance in public outside the nursery. They got their first permanent waves, prayed in a big church for the first time, and for the first time saw a zoo. (The parrot called "Good-by.") For the Dionne Quintuplets the week was memorable. The eight-year-olds and their entourage took over 15 rooms in Toronto's King Edward Hotel. They held audiences, raced up & down the halls, were baffled goggle-eyed by a magician, submitted their black, Indian-straight locks to a hairdresser (curls...
...Mexican Thinker. Joaquín de Lizárdi, the author of the Parrot's adventures, wrote only this novel, and did not even mean to do that. He was a political pamphleteer, and this fictional false-face for his ideas was his "last hope of outwitting the censorship, as well as of making a living by its sales. . . ." Serialized, it was suppressed at the eleventh chapter, published in full after his death...