Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
Rumsey's boat: Gifford, Stillman, Cutler, Parrot, Streeter, Koeniger, Gilkey, Larner...
Second Crew--Stroke, Parrot; 7, Gifford; 6, Swaim; 5, Crocker; 4, Geist; 3, Nants; 2, Koenigher; bow, Elliot; cox, Larner...
...acquiring the sum of all knowledge, when in reality he is being given only a few insubstantial generalities. They destroy the personalized education, traditional at Harvard, either by large lectures or by section meetings so large that they degenerate into lectures. Thirdly, by demanding little thought and only stereotyped, parrot replies, they send the student, not to Widener or Boylston, but across Massachusetts Avenue to the tutoring schools, where he is likely to remain the rest of his undergraduate days. It might be observed parenthetically, however, that this last danger could be removed by intelligent examination. Other reforms which could...
...basis, the devastating technique of Popeye the Sailor-man in dealing with bulldozers is bound to be disturbing. Last week in Berlin Nazi censors decided Popeye's spinachy vigor was getting a mite too rich for Aryan blood, banned one of his latest cinema cartoons, Popeye's Parrot...