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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Once More Behind Bar, "Baldy" Guindon Calls Prohibition Nation's "Worst Evil"--Now Happy | 12/9/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burlesque Queen Likes Harvard Men; Football Stars Too Handsome---Make Her Very Nervous | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

...printer. In Marlborough, N. Y., despite exhausting and remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press. Bertha Goudy has a collection of 29 lively tropical birds. Chief of the aviary is a parrot whose printable vocabulary is limited to "Tombo-precious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Type Couple | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...lawyer, faces a charge of conspiracy in murder to bring about a show-down in court. HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY-Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A dozen stories, some about Lord Peter Wimsey; some about Montague Egg, traveling salesman full of apt saws; some about neither. THE DEAD PARROT-Michael Keyes- Crime Club ($2). BULL'S EYE - Milward Kennedy - Kinsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...Eastern Gas & Fuel, United Corp., National Dairy Products Corp. Income for last year was $352.70. Of this, $270.77 had been expended for the client's room & board, $5.60 for Massachusetts income tax. The client, last week summering in Wakefield, N. H., was a staid, elderly, nonswearing Mexican parrot, which five years ago was left a $5,000 trust fund by its late master, Frederick D. Allen of Brighton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Deer on a Ledge (Cont'd) | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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