Word: parrots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room-mates, and a few other students will probably have an evening's entertainment. Four men will receive cash prizes under the terms of the endowment, but neither competitors nor audience will receive any lasting benefit from the effort involved in the contest. To memorize and intone perfectly in parrot-like elocution is no longer the acme of public speaking...
...Basil Thomson-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a servant and theft of coin bring to the Yard-novice Richardson a new chance. Much work, many physically gathered facts and good police integration bring co-relation of another case to bear and close the mystery. The case contains an extraneous parrot, a trustful solicitor and a suave arch-crook...
...considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with ghost writers...
...people, and intimately too. Why I heard the troubles and woos of half the prominent men in Massachusetts. Some of them even come to me for advice and I gladly give it to them when I can. Their questions range all the way from what to feed a sick parrot, to what to tell their frantic wives when they arrive home...
When the reporter became puzzled as to what to ask her next, Miss Lee took the initiative. "You can tell the people," she said, "that I like burlesque work a lot, that I have six dogs, two cats, and a parrot, but that my monkey died. Oh, and you might like to know that I never wear underwear in the winter. My natural body heat keeps me warm all season long...