Word: cat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cat leapt from the bag. Wild rumors circulated in Berlin: "The House of Stinnes is bankrupt"; "The Stinnes power is unshaken." These were the extreme views. Certain it was that the vast," intricate interests bequeathed by the late Herr Hugo Stinnes were financially embarrassed. Fear was expressed that, since neither Hugo Stinnes Jr. nor any member of the family had been present at the bankers' meeting, the loan was merely a palliative to tide over a situation for a short time in order to save the market from inevitable panic at a time of great depression. But such fears...
...moon is indeed green cheese, where is the cat that will catch the mice that nibble the holes that are easily seen by persons with a strong pair of binoculars...
...Wellington, N. Z., Prof. A. C. Gifford of the Hector Observatory is something of a cat. The lunar mice, he suggested last week, are meteors. Others have believed that the multitude of craters on the moon's surface are the chilly orifices of extinct volcanoes, mementoes of the aeons just after the moon, a molten fragment, was flung off from the earth's mass, arrested in the heavens by the pull of terrestrial gravity and started in its perpetual monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor...
...vitriol, butcher knives, and would use them if Max were injured. After languishing four years in a German camp, Max returned. Today, he leads the Liberals in the Chamber of Deputies. He looked upon the Van de Vyvere kitten Cabinet and decided it should not live to be a cat. A motion of want of confidence in the Cabinet was made. Max led the vote against it. The nine-day Cabinet was drowned...
...House, had been refused admittance. Also, that Robert Morris Washburn had suffered a similar disappointment . Both are authors of laudatory biographies of the President . Both biographies were used extensively in the 1924 campaign . Both tell how a Massachusetts legislator once introduced Mr. Coolidge with the words : " Like the singed cat , he is better than he looks . " But exactly why the President is offended (if he is offended), not one politician could tell another...