Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no second class race, but all the skiers are joining the party under Proctor's guidance. They are going to spend a day each on the Wild Cat, the Taft, and the Hell's Highway trails...
...dressing-room she keeps photographs of "mein Vater, meine Mutter, mein Mann und mein Bruder Fritz." She kisses them all and takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown. She has little interest in clothes, hates social occasions and everything she calls "Kitsch...
...small fry had already been shot (TIME, Jan. 7). seemingly nothing could have saved Prisoners Zinoviev and Kamenev last week, if the expressions of popular demand were genuine. When dread Judge Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," sentenced Zinoviev to only ten years imprisonment and Kamenev to only five, the cat...
...French manner (guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner (gallows), the U. S. manner (lynching). Amid the welter of dead and dying, more gentle readers will find relief in such shots as those of a cat carrying her kitten across a traffic-jammed city street; the Catholic Shrine at Lourdes; a swarm of locusts in Kenya Colony...
...cat's purr magnified on this scale, Dr. Free asserted, would be heard for 3,000 miles around. But the loudspeaker to produce such a volume of sound does not exist. Western Electric's new loud-speaker-used for the first time at last summer's America's Cup yacht races (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante}-multiplies the power of the human voice a millionfold, delivers thunderclap announcements with the force of 50-lb. hammer blows, makes itself heard for miles & miles in still air. Even so all but a few of the most intelligible...