Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cat-&-Mouse...
...Manhattan show of the Empire Cat Club, the Siamese Cat Society of America, and the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...
...show, however, had one crisis. From among 75 black, blue, red, chocolate, cinnamon, silver, champagne, fawn, and agouti-colored rats & mice, and from 150 white, blue-cream, smoke, red tabby, and tortoise-shell cats, a Siamese named Marvella and a fancy rat named Minnie were chosen to appear together in an amicable picture. When Cat Marvella reached out a tentative paw of friendship. Rat Minnie flew into a huff, sank her sharp teeth into the paw. Marvella whimpered, withdrew her foot...
Yesterday a kitten attended the feline show of the Boston Cat Club. The animal was blue-smoke with black fur lined with silver...
...fangled coloring of the cat is expected to win it high honors over such run-of-the-mill specimens as the black, white, red, and black-smoke animals...