Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American widgeon, ivory billed woodpecker, red owl, frog eater, chuck will's widow, yellow billed cuckoo, whip-poor-will, and others. Audubon's early work as a young man of twenty-three along the Ohio river is shown in drawings of the belted kingfisher, red-winged blackbird, and cat bird...
...Legs" is a breezy, carefree musical about a cat and a ship and asserted people. It makes no pretensions of edifying or satirizing; it is content to amuse. One sits back, gently smiling, frequently laughing, aroused by nothing more than an occasional dirty joke...
...action revolves about a lionized cat, and the efforts to kill it, save it, substitute for it, and impersonate its one-logged doctor, occupy the full two and a half hours. Starting with so limited a topic as a cat and restricted in locale to the sun-deck of a yacht, the play nevertheless spreads out over a wide range of situations. One indication of this is the names of the songs. They're all rather good, but slightly outstanding is "Totched in the Haid and Smitten in the Heart", and really superior is "Ten O'Clock Town", for which...
Tennis is one of the most graceful of games in its movements, and in its rhythm. It teaches the player to stand properly, because it encourages poise and balance. People who have played much tennis walk in a smooth and cat-like manner. If there is any excessive muscular development, it is because the strokes have been done incorrectly, and strain has been imposed unnecessarily upon muscles not prepared...
...warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore, the Government watched the Sun like a cat at a mousehole. The editor-in-chief put his sheet to bed with a Federal marshal literally looking over his shoulder. But Publisher Abell managed to keep things together until...