Word: parrotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monroe, Mich., Vincent Swiderski lost his parrot. Six years later he thought he saw his parrot on Mrs. Chermock's porch. Mrs. Chermock denied it was his. In court the parrot took the witness stand called by name the three children of Vincent Swiderski: Gladys, Leo, Joe. The Swiderskis got the parrot...
...swift return to the wreck that had been his home, standing beside a suitcase with Mrs. Hanna. "That suitcase," said Minister Hanna dully, "contains all we have in the world." It was not quite all. As the U. S. Legation crumbled and blazed, the Hannas' pet green parrot had slipped from his cage, crawled down a ledge and flopped into the arms of an Army officer. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. Immediately after the shocks, the city had been put under martial law. No one rested, but soldiers relieved from digging in the ruins patrolled the city with...
...Parrot In Manhattan, Frank Yitkos, longshoreman, called police to his home, pointed to Mrs. Frances Yitkos on the bed, her head bashed in, her body lacerated. Said he: "I think my wife is dead." Under the bed was a bloody hatchet. His theory: that two men had attacked her while he was out. In the next room a parrot squawked: "Don't, papa, don't!" Frank Yitkos confessed to the murder...
When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
...round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from the Lundy Post Office. He has coined his famous puffins & half-puffins (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930), coins bearing his likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird,'' the parrot-beaked, fat-bellied puffin. The 45 citizens of Lundy have not minded in the least. Trouble first began when a Devonshire court fined Sovereign Harman ?5 because he "did unlawfully, as a token of money, issue a piece of metal of the value of one penny [or puffin] contrary...