Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could easily afford to admit some boners. In the Bay area, parrot-beaked Herb Caen, 31, has a more devoted following than any syndicated columnist, and in the Chronicle he far outdraws Drew Pearson and Billy Rose, the only outsiders Editor Paul Smith prints. Smith has found out what many papers could confirm if they only tried,: a good local column doesn't have to be brilliantly written (Caen's isn't) to outshine all the syndicators that money...
...Utopian experiment consisted chiefly in following the Wordsworthian principles of "plain living and high thinking." Shunning his parents' wealthy house, FitzGerald rented a small cottage in Suffolk, where he lived for 16 years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr...
...basis of an old survey, bureau assistance helps eight out of ten of the students if serves to raise their grades. Many times the fundamental issue stems from the fact that students who merely had to parrot their instructor in preparatory school find difficulty in writing an exam that asks them to do something with the knowledge they have assimilated. Such men, once oriented, usually experience a great improvement in their marks...
Bird Call. In Hamburg, Germany, Elsa Zawada wandered into the zoo, suddenly heard a voice.calling, "Zawada, Zawada," looked into a cage, saw the parrot she had lost...
...Parrots. One of these jaunts took him to Samoa in 1890. There he met Robert Louis Stevenson, already nearing the end of his short, tuberculous career. "Stevenson and his wife were perched - like queer birds - mighty queer ones too. Stevenson has cut some of his hair; if he had not, I think he would have been positively alarming. He never seems to rest, but perches like a parrot on every available projection, jumping from one to another and talking incessantly. The parrot was very dirty and ill-clothed, being perhaps caught unawares, and the female was inTrather worse trim than...