Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food shops were members of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes Union. Dissatisfied with the indifference of the passing public, two Automat pickets, David Hart and Joseph Molner, paraded with placards picturing two chefs in conversation, one holding a pot, the other dangling a black cat, obviously dead...
...birds, insects, small animals, weeds, poets and artists, there exists no snugger sanctuary than "Sarobia," a 175-acre estate in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, on the Delaware River above Philadelphia. "Sarobia's"' gateposts are topped by big black iron cats, and ignorant Bucks County-ites have sometimes whispered that "cat-worshippers" and '"heathens" live on the estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society...
...Logans and their guests, and the fact that Mr. Logan believes that the estate should be as near to weedy nature as possible makes things easy for the outside servants. On "Sarobia's" grounds are 13 houses and cabins, one a guesthouse named "Runcible" after a Logan cat. and another a onetime roadhouse near the highway. In these live indigent poets, artists, thinkers, mostly obscure folk. Last week, on his annual visit to the Logans, arrived a more famed guest, Hindu Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had just returned from Europe...
Committee of the Soviet Union, was being chafed about his pet cat, of which he was inordinately fond. 'Well, I should love that cat,' Lapinsky said finally, grinning. 'The other day he scratched one of my manuscripts, and I found that he had saved me from a grievous deviation from the party line.' Lapinsky has disappeared now-no one knows where. Apparently his cat failed him at last...
Smiling like the secretive Cheshire cat, the tall, dark and handsome medical director of the American Birth Control League, Dr. Eric M. Matsner, arrived in Manhattan from London last week. In his mind was a new method of rendering women infertile for several weeks at a time. In a box which he carried were 18 South African clawed toads...