Word: parrot
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...Night is built to no such outlandish specifications, but closed the book with still unsettled feelings about the author. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who started well this side of paradise, is not yet through purgatory. Though he often writes like an angel, he can still think like a parrot...
...suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then allowed them to be put on sale, even though it has been demonstrated that a parrot may carry the disease for 14 months. Also in January the Department sent two of the dead birds to a Public Health Service laboratory. The Service found them too badly decomposed for diagnosis...
...room-mates, and a few other students will probably have an evening's entertainment. Four men will receive cash prizes under the terms of the endowment, but neither competitors nor audience will receive any lasting benefit from the effort involved in the contest. To memorize and intone perfectly in parrot-like elocution is no longer the acme of public speaking...
...Basil Thomson-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a servant and theft of coin bring to the Yard-novice Richardson a new chance. Much work, many physically gathered facts and good police integration bring co-relation of another case to bear and close the mystery. The case contains an extraneous parrot, a trustful solicitor and a suave arch-crook...
...considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with ghost writers...