Word: cockatoos
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Married. Mary Morrison, 20, only child of Britain's cockatoo-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison; and Horace Williams, son of forthright, Ascot-tied Labor M.P. and joint Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture Tom Williams; in London...
...Sundays and holidays for the past two months, Rosita Royce has confronted sightseers at the White Way Casino of the New York World's Fair. They ogled her while she strip-teased to the point where her costume consisted mainly of seven doves or alternately of a cockatoo called "Silly Billy" and a macaw named "Red." One day last week she was asked to give an eleventh performance. She indignantly refused. Said she: "The doves are worn out. I care more for their health than...
...before he was eight, he joined a Salvationist band at England's breezy Channel resort, Brighton. In 1911, Founder Booth sent Brigadier Burtenshaw to the U. S. to organize other Army bands. From behind his drum he has led bands ever since, has a healthy contempt for cockatoo drum majors who simply strut...
...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...