Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hills, Teapot Dome and Salt Creek are names written imperishably in oil. Attorney General Sargent was last week obliged to add Cat Creek to the list. Cat Creek is a U. S. oil field in Montana. In 1922, Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior, gave the Lewistown Oil and Refining Co. a contract to buy the Government's Cat Creek royalty oil. As in the case of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contract for Salt Creek, Wyo., oil,* Fall gave the Lewistown people an option to renew their contract after five years, although no such option...
Imagine seeing a black cat in front of the house, first thing in the morning of the day your husband expects to be elected President of the United States...
...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
...Muskogee, Okla., John Coffey, a farmer, wished to smoke a pipe and lighted a match. The match broke and fell into a tank of kerosene. The kerosene began to burn and a cat walked past it. The cat's fur caught fire and Farmer Coffey chased the cat. The cat jumped into his haybarn and the haybarn burned down...
...cat was Mr. Cochran. The fire was The Press. The singeing was an incident in August 1926, when Mr. Cochran, sailing for Europe, was reported by a ship news reporter as having said that General Motors stock would go higher, much higher. Wall Street, on reading the word of Mr. Cochran, promptly sent General Motors skyrocketing to a then-record-high...