Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood accorded him its highest accolade by starring Shirley Temple in his The Blue Bird. During World War II, Maeterlinck and his wife fled to the U.S. With them came two bluebirds. The Maeterlincks were permitted to land, but the bluebirds were barred because of the danger of psittacosis (parrot fever...
...want to get into television before he uses up all my material." Jack Benny is smarting over what he considers the theft of a hillbilly sketch, which Milton claims to have used first. Says Fred Allen: "He's done everybody's act. He's a parrot with skin on." Eddie Cantor is rankled because, he says, Milton recently used a sketch written for Cantor...
...member of the University of Rochester faculty for 18 years, Berry has conducted extensive research in birds, animals, and man related to such diseases as psittacosis (parrot fever), yellow fever, and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). He has also studied the relationships of certain viruses to cancer, and has been especially concerned with the mechanisms of virus infections...
Doctors had found no sure weapons against rickettsiae, * the tiny organisms that are smaller than bacteria but larger than most viruses. Aureomycin has been successful against many rickettsial and virus-like diseases: Q-fever, rickettsial pox, parrot fever, typhus fever, lympho-granuloma venereum (a venereal disease...
Postwar World. In Munich, Germany, zoo officials announced that the parrot which shrieks "Heil Hitler!" has been suffering from an inferiority complex since it was joined by one which screams "Buy American...