Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Wagner, you are a great man," squawked the well-trained parrot from the corner of the room. The genius nodded approval. "The bird must be right." In the future he would do greater things: he would build his own opera house, acquire wealth, lampoon the critics, devastate his enemies. But for the present he must evade the enemy. Quickly packing his most valuable possessions, he slipped quietly downstairs and fled from the City of Dresden...
...Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx cheer so vigorous that it would have warmed the heart of Herbert Hoover...
...Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond Scott, tears into something called the War Dance of the Wooden Indians. And Sonja, hovering on the outer edge, looks on with bland, pudgy good nature, putting in a word here & there in excellent parrot English, and probably wondering, in Norwegian, what to do until the ice freezes again...
...diseases (TIME, Dec. 28, et seq.). Last week conservative bacteriologists of the National Institute of Health announced that this astounding new drug seemed to be a cure for an entirely separate class of diseases, namely, those caused by viruses. Among virus diseases are the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis, parrot fever. Another disease due to a virus is "benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis," which was recognized as a distinct ailment only a few years ago because almost anything may cause its chief symptoms (headache, vomiting, slight fever). From a case of this lymphocytic choriomeningitis. Dr. Charles Armstrong and associates of the National...
George S. Olive, Jr.; George W. Overton, Jr.; Arthur W. Page, Jr.; Donald G. Parrot; Robert M. Peebles; Samuel F. Peirce; John R. Richards; David Richardson; Russell J. Ryan, Jr.; Marion B. Seevers, Jr.; Robert H. Shepard; Kenneth M. Spence, Jr.; S. Harris Squibb; Robinson Stevens; Allen E. Susman; Peter Van Pelt; George H. Wadsworth; John A. Waldo, Jr.; Lawrence H. Waterman; James F. Whitehead, Jr.; Malcolm R. Wilkey; Hamlin L. Williston; Samuel N. Wolbach, 3d.; and William L. Wood...