Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parrot eats our crops"-my son interrupted my reading-"and poor parakeet gets an ill name. . . . Their bitter sorrow in North America must be the effect of a certain embargo they are removing just now in a hurry. While Brazil was the first Government to proclaim neutrality, the United States was reacting economically...
...Lewes, Del., Birdy, a parrot, died. When President Grover Cleveland first took office, Birdy was taught to shout: "Hurrah for Cleveland!" For 54 years Birdy cheered for Cleveland...
...that rather mealy-mouthed phrase, "the indefinable something that is Yale." The meaning of these six unctuous words is ephemeral and open to whatever interpretation the listener may be disposed to make; usually, for the outlander, they mean about as much as abracadabra. But to us Elis, who glibly parrot this phrase, it leaves an impression of abstract vapidity that often passes for profundity. A catchword that rolls neatly off the tongue, it is used with equanimity both for accepting praise and for repelling criticism. What, then, does it mean...
Included in the Audubon exhibit are original sketches by the naturalist-artist of the cat-bird, screech, owl the Carolina parrot (now extinct), belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
...CASE OF THE PERJURED PARROT-Erle Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). The "testimony" of a profane pet parrot figures in the coroner's hearing on the murder of an eccentric millionaire. Standard Perry Mason, slightly frayed at the edges...