Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the children standard the investigators ruled out schools in tenement neighborhoods, swank suburban academies, the entire pre-school group of children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons cannot? What can cat do that dog cannot? What can sun do that moon and stars cannot? Chief worry of Tester Terman, besides that of having...
...STUDY IN PICTORIAL JOURNALISM PRACTICE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK,'"* the Times crowed: "All of this shows how a Times photograph was copied by the Examiner - an astonishing procedure, but not an unusual one. . . . The Times retouchers set a trap and caught - we might say, a copy cat...
...decisions of the United States Supreme Court. That court has [now] taken a different view ... so we feel it to be our duty to submit our own judgment to the rulings of the Supreme Court on the Constitution." Immediate effect of the opinion in Manhattan was to end a cat-&-dog price fight in the retail liquor business. Publishers and cosmetic makers at last foresaw the end of cut-throat price competition in the nation's No. 1 buying State.* Second day after the Albany flip-flop mammoth Macy's which traditionally "will not be undersold," announced what...
Ricardo Cortez, in the role of defense attorney for the (innocent) young man accused of the crime, gives a skillful enough performance with adequate assistance from the supporting cast. A black cat, name unknown, also figures in the events...
...harsh nasal drawl, and dear to every trans-Mississippi heart, such slang will set, many a pair of ears tingling. Frightened men are no longer gravely alarmed; they have the hell scared out of them. Superlatives are no longer the acme of this or that; they are the cat's pajamas...