Word: parrotings
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...Next, my distinguished opponent has recently begun to parrot the charges of the Republican irresponsibles that the Administration abandoned China to the Communists . . . But he still must know in his heart, even if he does not admit it, that in the past six years nothing except the sending of an American expeditionary force to China could have prevented ultimate Communist victory...
...young writers' colony at Vardon Hall, a country estate. This simple fact wins him many enemies. The local gentry are snobby about Vardon Hall's comedown and sniffy about the artist types soon to take it over. The leader of the opposition is a huge "obscene parrot" of a woman named Ma Curry, who wanted to turn Vardon Hall into a hotel. As a kind of madam for a clientele whose tastes are right out of Krafit-Ebing, Ma Curry has a bit of dirt on the distinguished Bernard Sands and is waiting to smear...
Dialectician. In London, the Times's Personal column carried this ad: "Tutor with Scottish accent urgently required for intelligent parrot. Telephone Chancery...
...York Times, conscientious as all get out in reporting more than its readers either desire or deserve, this week gave a whole column to the vocal attainments of an African grey parrot, including printed musical notes. The parrot, named Coco and thought to be 65 years old, performs nightly in the bar of a Long Island restaurant. In his repertory are a dozen tunes (from Aïda, Carmen, Peer Gynt, etc.), taught to him by the waiters, who are younger but better educated...
...fine mornings, so the Times says, the parrot can be seen walking about the lawns, slanging songbirds, nipping a blade of grass. Nobody worries about cats: to scare them off, he yowls like a fighting tomcat. If that fails, he barks like...