Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week's Associated Negro Press release did contain a "stick" (two or three inches of type) on "The Flying Fool" (Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh). A major point made (erroneously) in this item was: "We trust that the cat which flew with him is a BLACK CAT, to wipe out the historic slander against that innocent an-imal." Captain Lindbergh took no cat with...
...pointed staple which we tried for several days to duplicate, only to find that it was no longer on the market. Finally we called him up to ask what it was used for, so that we could perhaps provide a substitute. "I want to pin a tag on a cat's ear" was the answer. Whereupon we bought him a ten-cent box of clothes-pricing tags which proved satisfactory...
...merriment over the trial of Sari Fedak, quaked until reproving attendants had to plaster more hot mud upon their midriffs. Everywhere, from the promenades of Pest to the baths of Buda, every-one knew that Sari Fedak was being sued for applying the expression "That low down little Budapest cat!" to a rival actress, Vilma Banky, at present flickering in a U. S. cinema-drama, A Night of Love...
...strains have achieved notable degeneration. Perhaps it was by mere chance that Count Emerich Dagenfeldt went mad soon after Sari Fedak became mistress and then (after some six years) wife to Ferenc Molnar. Another question: The Court: "Did you really call the plaintiff 'that low down little Budapest cat'?" Sari Fedak: "I hardly know her well enough to call her that, but whatever I said, I said." The Court: "It is suggested by the plaintiff that you may wish to apologize." Sari Fedak: "What? Certainly not! Why, if I read that I had apologized to Vilma Banky...
Treasuryship Threatened. Since 1900, when the National Labor-Party was founded, James Ramsay Macdonald has repeatedly been elected its treasurer. But, last week, at a party conference in Leicester, opponents of Mr. Macdonald, defiant as mice when the cat is away, stampeded through a vote 312 to 118 striking his name from the roll of nominees for treasurer. The stroke was significant, revealed sharply that divergence between Labor radicals and Labor conservatives which Mr. Macdonald has many times prevented from becoming a party split by the force of his political generalship...