Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern clubs are little more than two centuries old. They really got going in Queen Anne's London, where men- usually impelled by politics-met regularly in coffeehouses and taverns. At the Whigs' Kit-Cat Club, Addison and Congreve fellowshipped with statesmen and lords; at the Tories' Scriblerus, Swift and his friends forgathered. Before the 18th Century went out, London swarmed with clubs that, like Dr. Johnson's immortal one, produced great conversation, or like White's, Boodle's and Brooks's, witnessed some of the steepest gambling in history...
...Presidents of the U. S. for many years had a good method of getting rid of any inconvenient politician: to make him Governor-General of the Philippines. Like a cat looking at a President, Homer Martin, whom John L. Lewis still tolerates as head of the United Automobile Workers, last week gave jobs to five U. A. W. vice presidents...
Managing Editor Edwin Leland James of the Times said this week, "We hope Cortesi will stay with the Times." A lean, cat-eyed, lightly mustached bachelor who understands Americans through his mother (the former Isabelle Lauder Cochrane of Boston), Britishers through his education (he was graduated as an electrical engineer from Birmingham University, worked for a time in the English Westinghouse plant at Manchester), Reporter Cortesi has spent the last 17 of his 41 years covering Italy for the Times, prefers quiet meals at home to dining out in smart places. "His only objections to alcohol," according to a friend...
Pinkham--15 inch total with seven inches of powder. Excellent skiing on Upper Sherburae. Good running expected on Wild Cat...
Chamberlain and me, a parcel came for the black cat-two Dover soles...