Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well, even so; a philosopher, he said, is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there...
...first report (six sentences from Cat Cay, Bahamas) was sent after he had transferred from the Farragut to Vincent Astor's Nourmahal aboard which were all the President's old socialite fishing cronies. It stated that the Governor of the Bahamas, Sir Bede Clifford and his lady, and the Duke of Kent and his lady had formally called upon President Roosevelt aboard the Nourmahal...
Author Luhan is a nature-lover: "It is delicious to participate with the cat in the deep within the penetrating domestic quietude of the somnolent interior, yet it is not so precious and uplifting as the tender, wakeful participation with the birds." Her description of Taos scenery and climate, especially from her window, are lingeringly loving. But life in a New Mexican ranch house, however comfortably fixed up, is fraught with more than contemplation. Chatelaine Luhan finds it strenuous: "For every single time I have to attend to anything, whether it's a horse, or a telegram from goodness...
...Come, Edith," he called. "Hurry up, I want you to come and talk to my solicitor about that cat of yours...
...Raleigh, N. C., just before he was electrocuted for murder, Sidney Etheridge, 45, Wartime machine-gunner against the Hindenburg Line, gave his recipe for enjoying Hell: "The first thing is to boil your black cat. You get your pot and go into the woods. Just as you get ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows...