Word: cockatoos
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...