Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacant street (for it was earliest morning) heard a scream from a shuttered birdshop, and peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...
...notices for a text--it would have been more dignified than the description of woman's legal status as that of a "pet monkey". However true it may be, in or out of law, it should never have been given such official sanction. Much better to have said pet parrot, or any other innocuous animal...
...ships come in. The first two have never had a client and the tried. Chubb has only ideas And very excellent ideas they turn out to be. For instance, the doctor's ailing landlady, who has let him keep his room because of professional services rendered, brings in her parrot to he cured of some undetermined malady. Chubb thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner suggested than acted upon, but, alas, for fond dreams of ham and eggs, a bewilderingly beautiful Red Cross nurse takes the money received to feed...
...expressed by W. H. Cowley, a former member of Dartmouth's student committee on the curriculum: 'Our professors stand on platforms like little gods and speak in pale blue voices, and when blue book time comes, we regurgitate. . . . Phi Beta Kappa scholarship is all pure memory work, parrot education...
...independence represented by doing one's own thinking, to match the sane mind with the sound body, to maintain a reverent spirit of religion--these were points emphasized by Dr. Hopkins in his counsel to the young men assembled before him. He warned them of the danger of "parrot thinking," the acceptance of plausible but misleading theories, such as often find exponents in any community; and while he spoke to an academic community, his words had application to a greater field. Certainly there have been few seasons in the national experience when the need of clear thinking and avoidance...