Word: parrots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parrot...
Thenceforward the story proceeds to get Sergey McTavish into more and more trouble. Finally he rescues an American called up before a shrewd Soviet Judge who has a parrot. Each prisoner must poke his forefinger into the parrot's cage. If parrot bites finger, the sentence is Death. Smart Sergey McTavish saves the American's neck by rubbing garlic on his finger, causing parrot to cringe, not bite...
...election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names of dogs, cats, dead men and a pet parrot named "John Talk." Atlantic City's population is some 57,000, of which some 10.000 are schoolchildren. Registrations reached the suspicious total...
...Canadian Mounted Police, would be out-diced in his conflict with Joseph Sweeney, the slickest dope-vender between Winnipeg and Vancouver. The sergeant, all ablaze in his scarlet tunic, had ventured into Hip Lung's basement laundry in search of murderers; and he was caught there like a brilliant parrot in a cage. Sweeney, a mean devil, had handcuffed the gorgeous fellow and was bossing him around at the point of a gun. Just as we were prepared to go home with the Sergeant's death-words resonant in our ears there was an odd occurrence. From two soiled-clothes...
...articulate dogs last week argued for attention. At the Eastern Dog Club's show in Boston one Princess Jacqueline, French bull from Bangor, Maine, answered questions logically, in a thin, high-pitched voice like a parrot's, "I will . . . I won't . . . Bangor . . . elevator." Her owner, Mrs. Mabel A. Robinson, explained proudly that Jacqueline had learned to talk "all by herself...