Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollywood Bowl symphony orchestra. He was for the first time in his life to do three things at Hollywood this week, and he must do each with éclat. The Hollywood crowd, although it pays only 25? a seat, is exigent. The last week in July they jeered and cat-called at soloist Aaron Copland because they did not like his Jazz Concerto. That must not happen to Percy Aldridge Grainger...
...record. Editor White stood corrected but added: "The undertakers are looking wistfully right now at three members of the United States Supreme Court, and with Al Smith as President we should have in that Court . . . three distinguished, learned, respectable lawyers . . . [who would] declare the Eighteenth Amendment unconstitutional before a cat . . . could wink her eye. . . . Smith's leadership comes from the amalgamated Tammanies of our great cities. . . . Shall Smith Tammanize America, or shall we Americanize Smith's Tammanies...
...giant gorilla, with Lulu and Lizzie, chimpanzees, Billy, rare blue cat, and 166 other animals including 12 cobras, 35 assorted snakes, came from Spanish Guinea on the Zarembo. J. L. Buck, Hoo-Hoo's owner, described a gorilla hunt: "Hoo-Hoo's mother and two aunts were escorting him through the jungles. My 21 pygmies chased him 17 days and nights. At length ... the pygmies let fly at him with their poisoned arrows." Deposited gingerly on a waiting truck, Hoo-Hoo jolted toward Camden, N. J., and Hunter Bucks' personal, private...
...alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now, and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark, once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey "cat-acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel Stark was compelled to perform far less hazardous feats, such...
...water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes...