Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printer. In Marlborough, N. Y., despite exhausting and remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press. Bertha Goudy has a collection of 29 lively tropical birds. Chief of the aviary is a parrot whose printable vocabulary is limited to "Tombo-precious...
...lawyer, faces a charge of conspiracy in murder to bring about a show-down in court. HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY-Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A dozen stories, some about Lord Peter Wimsey; some about Montague Egg, traveling salesman full of apt saws; some about neither. THE DEAD PARROT-Michael Keyes- Crime Club ($2). BULL'S EYE - Milward Kennedy - Kinsey...
...Eastern Gas & Fuel, United Corp., National Dairy Products Corp. Income for last year was $352.70. Of this, $270.77 had been expended for the client's room & board, $5.60 for Massachusetts income tax. The client, last week summering in Wakefield, N. H., was a staid, elderly, nonswearing Mexican parrot, which five years ago was left a $5,000 trust fund by its late master, Frederick D. Allen of Brighton, Mass...
...overworked, lost resistance and last week went to bed with infantile paralysis. Probably his only ill effect will be a weak right leg. Puzzling is the apparent immunity of medical men to infectious or contagious diseases. All last year only one physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors who died during the year (average age: 63.8-) heart disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting, only...
...surf with his alert, parody Boy Scout expression, ready for any emergency Scenarist Tom Geraghty may devise. Having landed June i, by June 24 he has made saws, jugs, hammocks, hatchet, carpenter's plane, outhouse with scroll-sawed star & crescent, pickaxe, baskets, architect's plans; has taught a parrot to say "O.K.," his dog to be civil to a monkey that vaguely resembles Fairbanks. Soon afterward he has dug traps, caught a goat, made the he-goat run a treadmill to churn the she-goat's milk, trained a turtle to follow food dangled by a stick in a circle...