Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that sum a purchaser had his choice of such particular bargains as two fine nudes by Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...
...paper that he had spent a good part of his life studying. Often offhand remarks by reporters would enliven the sessions. Thus when one interpreter was discussing a paper in the symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior," one reporter compared a child's actions under certain circumstances to a cat who'd been fed a hot oyster at which he'd pawed in anger after the bivalve had burnt him. "Do you feed your cat hot oysters asked someone. "Why yes," answered the helpful one, "he wanted it so I gave it to him." "That's a question in factors...
...stop work, and something besides for the midwife. However, Italian farm mothers of the type to whom Il Duce geared his oration last week are apt to consider the calling in of a doctor or midwife no more necessary for a healthy woman than for a healthy sow or cat...
...because at least half the responsibility in polo is the pony's, and a good string, properly equipped, costs $25,000-all but some 500 play a variety of polo which compares to what was going on on Long Island last week as one-o'-cat compares to the World Series. Poloists who belong to clubs which belong to the U. S. Polo Association receive handicaps of from zero to ten goals in ratio to their ability. To enter the Open, a team's four members must have a total handicap of 21 goals or better...
...Upon being ushered into this man's apartment, a sight greeted me that was not only repulsive but nauseating. Worker himself was in a semi-drunken stupor. His wife was lying on a dirty, sheetless bed. so drunk she could hardly raise her head. A mother cat with young kittens was in a box near...