Word: catnipped
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...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...
...York, one Teddy, a Maltese cat, crawled down a chimney, wailed loudly for help. Up jumped sleepers, up flew windows. Teddy continued to scream. Angered residents called the police, nine policemen arrived, tried to entice Teddy out with catnip and pork. Teddy stayed put. The policemen chopped through a 4-in. wall, found it was the wrong wall. They chopped another hole, a policeman reached for Teddy, Teddy reached the policeman first, the policeman let go. A boy pulled Teddy out, the S.P.C.A. executed him painlessly with lethal gas, the neighborhood slept again...
...means of bringing their old friend before the footlights in praiseworthy poses. On the stage Jack Dempsey is an honest prize-fighter with a crooked manager; he loves a brunette who, because her brother is in the power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that no catnip or other poison can hamper Champ Jack Dillon in the performance of his art. The last scene shows...
...crazy"-and try to name sets of well known lunatics, asylums, slang words meaning "crazy," madhouse apparatus and perhaps a few causes of insanity, each set composed of words beginning with letters in "crazy." Thus, "c" words in some of the different sets above suggested could be "Caligula," "cuckoo," "catnip." Under "a" could come, "authors of Guggenheim," "addled," "amusement books...