Word: cats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take care of the millions as well as the pennies, the public funds will be in a large measure wasted. The periodic investigations of Robert, the cat, will go on. The elephant will disregard the trees that need to be uprooted and keep on picking up the pins...
...British House of Commons has been likened to the trunk of an elephant: It can uproot a tree or pick up a pin. The same might be said of our democratic form of government. In New York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers...
...thought she heard a tiger-cat a peering through the blind...
...unofficial, have told us how pleased they have been with our work and in the privacy of our rooms we have laughed and said: "Well, we get away with it, anyway." This time, however, we were caught red-handed. We have no excuse, we are inwardly glad. The cat is out of the bag and we have something to work for: our pride demands that we redeem ourselves not only in the eyes of Colonel Applin, but in our own. Today's exercise was the best example of unmilitary drill the Regiment has ever given, and at the supper tables...
...time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till the one who can make the sharpest turn succeeds in getting behind the other. Then the first one to get out of the way, may do a renversement or half turn of a vrille and the second will try to do the same thing to keep still...