Word: parrots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Korean mining stocks. His only previous brush with the law occurred in 1931, when a Devonshire Court fined him ?5 for coining Lundy money in the form of 50,000 "puffins"' and "half puffins" bearing his own likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird," the parrot-beaked sea-puffin (TIME, Jan. 26, 1931). In his day of power, wealthy King Harman often proposed a London Curb Exchange to British financiers, who saw no earthly reason for it because the London Stock Exchange, unlike U. S. exchanges, deals in all securities, whether formally listed...
...boats which took to the water yesterday were Donald G. Parrot, John L. Bremer, 2nd, Walter N. Kernan, 2nd, Phillips Hallowell, John R. Richards, George W. Overton, Jr., John N. Fulham, Jr., Bayard H. Dillingham, Alexander B. Comstock, Jr., John J. Rowe, Jr., John B. Lloyd, Robert W. Harding, Lawrence M. Rile '39, Roger A. Derby, Jr., Thomas E. McCormick, Jr., and David Stiles...
...commercial shipments of birds of the parrot family on board. . . ." Chief Akin then telephones (cost to the Government: 10(0 to the ship's agents who relay this message by radio (cost to the agents: $9), "Permission is granted ... to proceed without stopping at Quarantine...
...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...
...held the mixture up to his sitter's face before he put it on canvas. When he painted the three little daughters of George III playing in a garden, he was so slow and demanded so many sittings that the Princesses, their nursemaids, spaniels and a bright green parrot all broke into open revolt. Last week The Three Princesses was off its accustomed hook in Buckingham Palace and on the walls of the Manhattan Museum...