Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allergy to some substance caused the sneezing, Washington doctors scratched her skin some 80 times, rubbed into the scratches hay pollen, flower pollen, pulverized cat fur, dog hair, house dust, food extracts, dozens of substances...
...wake up again when H--comes in, suggests excursion into town. Pull myself together and a sprinkle of cold water on my face does wonders, and we go to Boston. H--is buying a Christmas present for his baby niece in Omaha. He picks out a wooly white cat, very gaga, with green wool eyes. The cat and H--and I stop for a milkshake, my half-eclipsed condition precluding more nocuous refreshment...
...series of models illustrating seven stages in human embryology for $75, an ichthyosaurus paddle for $15, a nearly complete ichthyosaurus skeleton for $300. A 300,000,000-year-old trilobite may cost as little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia University 25 Ib. of lead ore, the University of Illinois 18 bullfrog skeletons. A man in Jamaica who had failed in business four times and felt the need of a magic talisman wrote for "the head of a white weasel." A medicine show proprietor asked for something that...
About the size of a black bear, weighing 200 to 300 Ib., the giant panda has long, creamy fur, black forelegs and shoulders, black ears, black circles around its eyes, cat-like feet. It eats bamboo shoots. Natives call it beishung (white bear) and scientists call it Ailuropus melanoleucus. So scarce is it that when the Roosevelts shot theirs, inhabitants of the nearest village, 25 miles distant, had never seen or heard of such a creature...
...pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano, sat up when the pianist played softly, scuttled off when he played loudly, returned for the pianissimi, required four men to catch him. Performing last week...