Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centuries hence a group of Americans, with the idea of destroying patriotism, began denying the fact that Geo. Washington had ever lived and started calling the twenty-second of February "Xington's Birthday," and in the celebrations used a black cat with seven tails as a symbol of the day what would you think? This compares well with what we so-called Christians are doing...
...over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil Car." U. S. women wrote lengthy, passionate letters.* Last week, the German automobile industry heard alarming reports. Persistent were the rumors that the Opel...
...Privy Councillor *Cat-killer von Opel received 600 letters. Most of them expressed the hope that he, von Opel, would meet a precisely similar fate...
...Hoover went out and caught the cat, took it indoors. After breakfast, she accompanied her husband to a polling place, with their sons and daughter-in-law. They returned to a house full of people, sandwiches, chrysanthemums, telegraph tickers and commotion, to wait and hear how many millions of citizens were voting the way the Hoovers had voted. If Mrs. Hoover thought about the black cat during the day, there was another "omen," too. It was not only Mrs. Smith's birthday, but Herbert Hoover...
...Georges Clemenceau, whom Charles Seymour greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...