Word: cockatoos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having used violence in executing a court order, at first seemed stymied by Mrs. Barnett's tactics. But early one morning when his customary audience was home in bed, he and twelve deputies cautiously moved up on the house. Mrs. Barnett, in the back yard feeding her pet cockatoo, ran in, bolted the door...
...central pair have to get the maid's book of applied witchcraft to restore things to normalcy. They run into special trouble obtaining a yellow-bellied spider and in learning the Babylonian word for cockatoo. They ultimately succeed but with disastrous results for another couple present when the spell is cast...
...WHITE COCKATOO-Mignon G. Eberhart-Crime Club ($2). A handful of out-of-season guests in a rambling French hotel meet an anonymous corpse on the dark stair, followed by shots in the night, impersonations, intrigue, two more murders...
...months in power the Commonwealth Labor Government of Premier James Henry Scullin suddenly fell last week. In Parliament Irate John Albert Beasley M. P. charged that Commonwealth Treasurer Edward Granville Theodore was showing political favoritism in the distribution of jobs to Australia's unemployed. Jobs at the Cockatoo Naval Dockyard which lies in the Beasley constituency were being given to unemployed men from Treasurer Theodore's constituency, before Beasley constituents had a chance to apply for them. Treasurer Theodore denied the charge. Mr. Beasley demanded an investigation. Radical Left Laborites deserted the Labor Premier, joined the Opposition...
Civic Repertory Theatre. Eva Le-Gallienne's enterprise got underway for its fifth season with one new presentation, The Green Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. Mr. Schnitzler's playlet advances the notion that slumming was a popular diversion in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax...