Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done. None thought to take his words down verbatim, yet as he finished they realized that he had pronounced a judgment as scornful as it was scathing upon a white man who is popularly supposed to be loved by Negroes- Author Carl Van Vechten of Nigger Heaven, long a cat-fancier but lately a collector as well of Negro art, a patron of Negro poets, a frequenter of Harlem cabarets and apartments...
...provoke scandalous gossip, succeeds in compromising the lady, and turns out to be the villain who robs ignorant foreigners of their hoarded pennies. A "hometown" girl furnishes the aristocratic flavor. Having eloped with an impoverished Russian count, she returns to air her sophistications and provide limitless material for occasional "cat fests...
...Cat. Their eyes like round sudden stars in the reflection of head- lights, feline debauchees parade on roads at night, killing birds and frightening motorists. Last week near Chillicothe, Ohio, such a fe- line debauchee squatted, yowling and jeering, on a road in front of Mrs. E. C. Hood who was driving her car. Mrs. Hood, startled by the sparkling eyes, drove her car over the side of a bridge, injuring herself, demolishing...
...More correctly, One Old Cat. This game is derived from baseball, is played with batting and fielding, changing by rotation rather than by inning. Any number, usually not more than five, can play. As a batter is put out on the run from home to first base and back to home, he moves into the position of the most remote fielder...
...Paris, cats are news. The Feline World, a new monthly, publishes literary, scientific, artistic news of cats under the editorship of "The Cat without a Name." Included is a social column for births, deaths, scandal, gossip among Paris cats...