Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Pandora's box of diseases, one, psittacosis, a stranger in the U. S., escaped last week. Two people were diagnosed dead from it, a score deathly sick-at Baltimore, Annapolis, New York, Providence, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Warren (Ohio).* All victims owned parrots newly imported from South America. The birds presumably transmitted the disease, which is peculiarly a parrot fever. The birds apparently carry the germs in their mucous membranes and in insects bred in the warmth of their underwings...
...Famed parrot-owners are Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, Prince Albert de Ligne, Ambassador from Belgium, Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the retiring British Ambassador...
...manner is Pietro Gasparri. Swarthy, stout of frame, broad of shoulder, his head is Ciceronian. His apartment in the Vatican, directly beneath the Pope's and connected with it by a private elevator, is of two rooms. His retinue includes a butler, a cook, a valet, a green parrot. In the little cemetery at Ussita, his home village, where the peasants call him "Don Pietro," his tomb is ready, inscription...