Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University will unquestionably return to the plan of eating together," declared Farrell. "It's only natural that young men should cat in one place," he continued, "for there is no doubt that rubbing elbows with the other undergraduates is one of the most important activities in which any man in the college can participate...
...into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington's day. Neither Juliet nor the reader ever sees Miss Tiverton, but the black cat, sunning himself on the wall between the two houses, is a competent viceroy...
...Cleveland, one Mattie Mason, intoxicated, hurled her pet cat at one Henry Ling, killed the cat, did not harm Mr. Ling...
Hold That Lion (Douglas MacLean). Ignorant of the fact that in South Africa "cat" means "lion," Douglas MacLean sets out to get a pussy for his sweetheart. As if this were not embarrassment enough for one motion picture comedy, he loses his trousers at a most aristocratic function the very same evening. It is all for the best, however, and funny...
...critics declare that he has softened; it is true. How could it not be true? Only when he is in the ring do those days come back. Then his brows blacken in a manner unbecoming to the hero of a sentimental cinema; his body, muscled like a panther cat's, seems to ignite with malice, to burn and flash; then his fists reach out, savagely, lethally, to destroy the weaving shape in front of him and get revenge for something he has just remembered, a wrong done, a score that must be evened, something that happened to him long...