Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, so unique in the abundance and tameness of its wild life, that one can approach to within a few feet of wandering monkey bands, catch armadillos with one's bare hands, and startle gorgeous blue and flame macaws, the giants of the parrot family from nearby branches, is not a mythical Paradise, but Guanacaste, isolated, northwestern province of Costa Rica, in Central America...
...disease is very much like driving a nitroglycerine wagon: it seems safe at the time but trouble may come any moment. Trouble came last week to some researchers in the U. S. Public Health Service's laboratory at Washington. Searching for the cause and cure of psittacosis (parrot fever), eleven of them came down with the disease. The laboratory had to be closed, leaving psittacosis a momentary victor over the U. S. Government...
Prior to last week health officials had thought that contact with infected parrots was necessary to contract parrot fever. To explain the fact that three of the stricken researchers had not been within 30 ft. of a dead parrot, it was necessary to go off on a new tack. The new tack: parrot fever is extremely contagious...
...Racine, Wis., Mrs. Margaret C. Hand willed $500 to her pet parrot...
...reported, eight psittacosis deaths. In Washington, Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming ordered a nation-wide investigation of psittacosis, to be headed by Dr. Charles Armstrong. In Los Angeles, all pet stores and recently purchased birds were quarantined. In Chicago, one Ben Plonski tried to get rid of an annoying parrot by telling health officers that the bird was "a psittacosis menace to the community." In Manhattan, City Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne declared an embargo on parrot shipments from South America, advised parrot owners to wash their hands thoroughly after touching their birds...