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Word: macaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Bird Fancier | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Adrian sleeps in one of the biggest beds in Hollywood under a vaulting canopy, has 12-ft. divans in his house, coffee tables sizable enough for billiards, gives his friends as many as a dozen Christmas presents, keeps three pet monkeys and a macaw. Last year he married tiny Janet Gaynor, having previously styled her with bright carrot-colored hair (and her mother with blue hair). He recently popped a surprise by announcing that he was designing maternity clothes for his wife, a nursery wing for his sprawling Spanish house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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