Word: parroted
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...Certainly I'm a regular editor of the Advocate," declared Essenz von Bierschaum, the Advocate parrot, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter, and emphasized her statement with a resounding phrase from her nautical past that the reporter felt forced to censor...
...just returned from her vacation spent on a brigantine out of Marseilles, and is rumored to be writing a series of articles for the Advocate on her past as a parrot lady-sailor...
...cells lives a drab old maid with a parrot. To Mrs. Bowman's son (Douglass Mont-gomery), who has groped to young manhood in blindness, the spinster is kind, therefore beautiful. He venerates her as he does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed...
...motor car. In the gardens is a clumsy copy of the French shrine of "Our Lady of Lourdes." When he reaches this shrine, he descends from his vehicle to pray at it for a few moments. Nearby are cages containing his two pets?an eagle and a green parrot. He prefers the parrot, to which he has taught a few phrases. He feeds them each a morsel and then passes on, daily, for a short walk by himself...
Besides serving as counsellor and friend, the parrot may prove to be a literary inspiration, and any future poems on the subject of a 'bird in his gilded cage' may be directly traced to his influence...