Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worse troubles. In its effort to balance the Budget, the Senate taxed landlords 50% of any rent they charged, 150% of what they got. What with Wall Street investigations, the Depression got so thick that Julius, the Secretary of Commerce, disappeared. Sole memento of him was the White House parrot who kept saying "The Depression is over! The Depression is over!" In the uncanny way the little polly repeated Julius' slogan, and with that beak of his, Mr. Wintergreen was almost tempted to believe in reincarna tion...
...more or less than human friends. The white rat, the tip of whose brain has been removed, can still show his master how gallant, how thoughtful a lover he can be to the soft white beauty who builds a nest of newspapers in the desk. Vicious, the little green parrot, loves to lie under the Doctor's coat when he goes to the symphony; warm and still, she chews his tie, his shirt. Only once, frightened at something, did she begin to talk. The man sitting next the Doctor thought he was making that remarkable noise. The Doctor covered...
...summer King George remained petless except for Charlotte the parrot. Parrot Charlotte is a 40-year-old bird that H. M. bought in Port Said when he was in the navy. In her youth Charlotte had a loud and penetrating voice, knew a variety of nautical terms and a smattering of French, and used to frighten visitors to Buckingham Palace by suddenly screaming "WELL WHAT ABAHT IT?" Lately she has grown morose, likes to sit on the King's shoulder at breakfast time cracking sunflower seeds...
ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE NIGHT CLUB LADY?Anthony Abbot?Covici, Friede ($2). Lola Carewe, beautiful blonde, was frightened nearly out of her wits. First her dog, then her parrot had been mysteriously killed; an anonymous note told her she was next. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt gave her the protection she asked, but it did not save her. With her apartment guarded, every entrance watched, with Colt himself in the next room, Murderee Carewe's death-scream came on schedule. Before Colt could unravel the tangled clues, two more victims died horribly. Writing detective stories is a sideline for Author...
...necessary to wait 15 min. while it cooled off. Actors Tone and Barker were then seen and heard. What they said was clearly audible but their faces flickered vaguely on the screen; it was hard to tell which was which and what they were doing. Later, a Central American parrot was somewhat more successfully televised, screeching hoarsely at mention of Prohibition. Theatre-owner B. B. Moss made a speech explaining that the purpose of the performance was "to show the progress in television rather than the finished article." Observers wondered whether television's progress, as shown, was not such...