Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bordeaux, in a rue Ste. Catherine charcuterie (delicatessen), one Desirée Dumas sliced bologna. Her store cat watched harpy-like, leaped at a falling morsel, seized it, rushed outside, scuttled under the house. Mile. Dumas had sliced off her finger...
...What famed artist bit off a cat's tail to get a paintbrush...
...father," George Inness Jr. used to say, "is the vision of him painting a washtub. . . ." There was in that statement perhaps more vision than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor. He was never indigent. From the time that he left grammar school he devoted himself furiously to the studies that made him the greatest of U. S. landscape painters. In his studios in Montclair, N. J., in Washington...
...Columbus, Ohio, one Juanita Murray posed for news photographers with her cat, Puss-Puss, who, since adoption six years ago, has brought forth 171 kittens, which Juanita gave as pets to small neighbors. Columbus cat experts pronounced Puss-Puss the local champion feline genitrix; declared the previous record was 137, held by a cat at Ohio State University...
...rebuked with measured scorn and thoroughly dressed down by the Speaker, for "the gross indignity offered to Parliament and the vile discourtesy done to the House of Lords" (TIME, July 12), by Laborite M. P.'s who cat-called and booed among themselves while a message from the King was read...