Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last the cat is out of the bag, and George Owen, the famous Harvard football star, has let it out in an article in the current issue of the Independent, reproduced in the Harvard Bulletin and other publications. He gives it as his frank opinion 'that the majority of college football players do not enjoy playing the game. There are, of course, a certain number of exceptions, but these are the men, I think, who would enjoy any fight.' But for the majority of players 'capacity for enjoyment of the game as a game is in many instances completely lost...
From the Argentine came news of a new mammal, the kangarfox, with a body like a kangaroo, a cat's head, the fur of a fox and "the soft, melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player...
that- They died, confiding in the cat...
Although most of the furriers' dealings, judged by bulk, seem to have been in cat fur, the pelts of other animals also came upon the block, including black bear, grizzly bear, polar bear, ocelot, wolf, Canadian baum marten, Japanese marten, cross fox, fisher, flying squirrel, Chinese weasel, pahmi and Gold Coast monkey...
More varied were the offerings of "sundry cat," aggregating about 25,000 skins in one day. Russian cat went for $2.00, leopard cat as high as $1.70, Hungarian cat at $1.40, spotted cat...