Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despite the curiosity likely to be aroused, it is probable that the "Forum" will soon conclude that it, like the philosopher, is "looking in a dark cellar for a black cat which isn't there". The real success of the contest will rather be found in the mere fact of its existence. For, although Diogenes never found the honest man, he proved that one could earnestly seek him. Thus in throwing athwart the mists, the silhouette of a thinker, the "Forum" will, perhaps, have more success in broadcasting a thoughtful method of approach to argument, than in clarifying specific terms...
...objects are not segregated in race divisions but hung together in a harmonious whole to carry out "the idea of international sympathy." There were studies of a cow, a cat, a goose, and a donkey by Jeanne Poupelet; compositions by such Frenchmen as Derain, Andre, Rouault, Aristide Maillol; by Augustus John and Jacob Epstein; by George Luks, Jo Davidson, Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward...
...other day in a paper that when the word 'rubber' was mentioned, an Englishman's expression was like that of the cat caught by the empty cream jug or the empty canary cage. You will understand that the word 'rubber' does not produce that particular kind of satisfaction in my soul." He told of the ups and downs of rubber planting; told of hard times immediately following the War when "it was literally a case with many plantations of 'To be or not to be-aye, there's the rubber!'" He concluded...
...Darmstadt, a playwright, one Alfred Doeblin, presented a piece called Lusitania which showed the ship torpedoed, sinking, the passengers cursing, the adventures of the hero and heroine at the bottom of the sea. Nationalists cat-called, booed, stamped with their feet...
...Anderson, his "Dark Laughter" seems to me a great improvement over some of his other books. Michael Arien's "May Fair" is on the order of his other books, but after the first flash he becomes a little tiresome. Maurice Baring has produced another entertaining and delightfully written novel, "Cat's Cradle." "Suspense" is an unfinished novel by Joseph Conrad. David Garnett's "Sailor's Return," an amusing and well written story, describes strange events in a quiet English village. "The Constant Nymph" is one of the most pleasant and vivid stories that has appeared for some time, and will...