Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipe, damn it, was almost a symbol; he knocked out its ashes vehemently. Vag turned toward the easy chair and was ready to parrot back that you've got to be something, you know; the wife and kids; food, shelter, clothing; life in a groove. But the voice had changed for the better. It was a kindly voice Vag heard. "By the way, son, if they all turn you down, you might even come in with me down at the office. Start as a runner, of course, at fifteen per." Even though he had heard that speech before, Vag didn...
With Pekingese and parrot, Mrs. Jennie Miller of Seattle prepared to sail for India to visit her daughter, Nancy Ann Miller, who since 1928 has been apple-of-the-eye and wife No. 3 of rich Tukoji Rao III, ex-Maharaja of Indore...
...pipe, damn it, was almost a symbol; he knocked out its ashes vehemently. Vag turned toward the easy chair and was ready to parrot back that you've got to be something, you know; the wife and kids; food, shelter, clothing; life in a groove. But the voice had changed for the better. It was a kindly voice Vag heard. "By the way, son, if they all turn you down, you might even come in with me down at the office. Start as a runner, of course at fifteen per." Even though he had heard that speech before, Vag didn...
...authorship of three nationally popular songs, a guitar, saxophone and two pianos, a set of stooges including two U. S. C. football players, a kiss from Bette Davis, a crown from Ed Sullivan, a broken leg, 80 chickens, three turkeys, three ducks, three geese, six canaries and a parrot...
Master of Carville is blue-eyed, white-thatched Dr. Hermon Erwin Hasseltine.Shy in company, but bold in his laboratory, Dr. Hasseltine has traveled from Alaska to Hawaii exploring such rare diseases as hydrophobia, undulant fever, psittacosis (parrot fever)-which he has twice come down with. An authority on leprosy, at 58 he still devotes all his spare hours to research...