Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last-Friday one distraught cat owner in Eliot House wrote a friend...
Will you do me a great favor and feed my cat a raw hamburger on Saturday and Sunday? I have been called away for the weekend, and I will repay you on my return Monday. Keep the bloody little animal in the bathroom, so that there will be no unfortunate debris elsewhere...
Yesterday a most innocent pussy strolled nonchalantly into the Dunster House dining room, to see how college boys dine. A sinister conspiracy was slowly unfolded in one corner. And then a waiter, smiling villain, made for the unhappy cat, skillfully disguising his evil intentions. And now comes the horrible part. He grabbed the pleasant little visitor by the nape of the neck and strode heartlessly out into the kitchen. The Pioneers are anxiously awaiting the product of Mr. Verbeck's infernal machine...
...slowly and quietly. Carpenters coming to work on a building two doors away beamed: ''Lor' love you, we'll put cotton wool on our hammers if the Duke wants us to." In the sun on No. 3's front stoop a big black cat leisurely washed itself. It was raining when Edward of Wales arrived to pay his respects to his latest nephew...
...famed Swiss Composer Ernest Bloch (TIME, April 23. 1934 et ante). Lucienne Bloch was born in Geneva in 1909. Her first ambition was to be an Alpinist. She never thought of being an artist until at the age of 11 she suddenly began illustrating "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat." Father Bloch, delighted, bought her a paint box, later sent her to the Cleveland School of Art. In Europe she first studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle, then painted at the Beaux Arts, felt acutely uncomfortable with both. It was only when she went to Rome that she saw what...