Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grating. The Surgeon probed the hole, felt a hard mass. With forceps he pulled at the mass. It came loose, a strange-looking something the size of a plum. Surgeon Sweet paused several seconds while the Negro artist sketched the "tumor" and cavity, then tossed the "growth" into a catch basin, reamed the cavity in Warden Lawes's leg, put in a drain and some stitches, and was done...
...specific failure of his Cabinet to clear up the Stavisky scandal which is still in the dawdling hands of its Parliamentary Committee. Convinced that le peuple blame chiefly the Committee and not himself, Gastounet left the microphone to begin his summer vacation. Next evening as he was about to catch the sleeping car for his wife's estate near Toulouse the Stavisky scandal blew up in Committee and excited Cabinet Ministers came tearing to the station...
...fell in love. All went swimmingly until the girl's father decided that Willoughby was no catch, did his level best to break up the affair. Willoughby dissipated his feelings, acquired a heartless mistress, got into debt, lived in squalor. When his true love finally came back to him both had much to forgive. But at last they were married, went to live on the ancestral farm Willoughby had inherited. For a few years they were happy; then Willoughby's blood began to tell. He grew more and more like his old uncle, sank deeper and deeper into...
...story, a dozen paragraphs long, said nothing about pearl danio, nothing about salt remedies. Not until the next edition did Herald Tribune editors catch an error caused by "slugging" the Republican remarks of the vociferous New York Congressman under his own name...
...could think of nothing better than joining the army again, but in those days there was competition, and Cervantes' crippled hand made him ineligible. While he was looking around for something to do he acquired a mistress and fathered a daughter; later with great difficulty (for he was no catch) he made a respectable marriage. A kinsman of his wife's, one Alonso Quijada, had been so disagreeably opposed to the marriage that Cervantes made a mental note of him. When he began Don Quixote it was with the intention of caricaturing this country squire. Foiled in his attempts...