Word: catnip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rough Reefer. In Boston, police hauled Booker K. Miller into court on a charge of peddling marijuana cigarets, dismissed his case when a chemist's report showed that the cigarets consisted entirely of catnip...
...Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Paramount) is a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster. Its ordinary enough subject -the difficulties of a small-town girl, pregnant, without a husband-is treated with the catnip giddiness to be expected from Writer-Director Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve). The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults-both as fun and as cinema...
...halls of the British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles...
...catnip for the wildcats, oilmen have a standard recipe: higher oil prices. In San Francisco last week Cities Service Oil President William Alton Jones asserted: "Unquestionably a higher price would increase exploration ... 25? tacked on to the current $1.20 price (midcontinent crude) would stimulate a 20% expansion...
Making memorable the occasion, Jack Barrymore, who was referred to by Variety last fortnight as "that daft sprig of catnip," had arrived at the studio cold sober and an hour early, for rehearsal...