Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House correspondents gave Presidential Secretary William D. Hassett a talking mynah for his 69th birthday present last year, and the black, orange-ruffed bird caught on fast. He learned to cock his head and cry: "What about the appropriation?" Hassett, an old newsman himself, soon taught the bird to squawk: "Flash! Get me the desk!" "Flash" became his name...
Thunder & Sunshine. Ted strolls the dusty lot from the hotel to the clubhouse, announces his arrival there by whistling, then calling "Hey, hamhead!" at someone, or by setting up a richly profane squawk about the set of the wind or the whereabouts of his spikes. His teammates, who know that Ted's outbursts are his way of working off the impatience that perpetually gnaws at him, let him thunder away. When he subsides, one of them (often it is burly, chirpy Birdie Tebbetts, the first-string catcher) calls out: "Hey, that's telling them, Theodore!" Ted rewards such...