Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard, pragmatic Dictator Kemal passed the petition to Angora officials who ignored it, but a rich & pious Turk bestowed on Petitioner Ali a disused house on Turkey's famed Golden Horn (a dirty stretch of water flanked by palaces and woods). Last week Mehmed Ali Bey scratched his woolly poll and complained to a U. S. correspondent: "Neither I nor my wife nor my children can find good jobs in Turkey. Sure we've got jobs, but they are no good. I even had to sell my dictionary. My sons are digging sewers. My daughters are cooks...
...Angora cat which climbed a Manhattan tree last week for the first time in its life and then did not know how to get down caused police much trouble and cat-haters much glee...
...Angora's owner is one Harold Mallard. He carried it across busy streets into a park where it is the cat's habit to stroll at the end of a-leash. The cat saw a squirrel, leaped from Mr. Mallard's arms, chased the squirrel 30 ft. up a poplar. The squirrel ran down. But the cat feared to follow, yowled until police came with ladders...
...Mallard's practice of controlling his Angora by a leash, a common practice in Manhattan, had the Society's approval. His domesticated Angora's chasing the squirrel was a pat example of the Society's strongest argument-that cats are killers. It suggested better than words the late John Burrough's contention that each cat in the U. S. kills on the average 50 birds a year. And it made unnecessary a photograph the society sought to take last week of a house cat stalking a stuffed bird rubbed with stale fish...
...President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, for his exemplary stock farm at Angora, from Manhattan sailed six U. S. pedigreed cows, two bulls, four heifers, gifts from President Wilfred Washington Fry of N. W. Ayer & Co. Hoover of (advertising), Hoover President Vacuum Herbert Cleaner W. Co., Chainstoreman James Cash Penney...