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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dick, so the story goes, was a poor lad who found his way to London and was taken into the service of the merchant Fitzwarren. To rid himself of the mice in his garret-bedroom, he bought a cat for a penny. As it was a custom for all the Fitzwarren servants to send something of their own in their master's ships to make a little money, Dick was virtually forced to send his cat away; but the cat caught rats for a foreign king; and the king paid enormous sums for the cat; and all this money Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lord Mayor's Show | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...English, and the "Dvor Hoyom," a daily, in Hebrew. He is an active director and editor of both of these publications. During the last year he devoted some time to theatrical productions in New York, and was responsible for the production of the Spanish musical comedy, "The Wild Cat," and in London he produced the "The Risk," "the Torch," and "Listening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN AARONSOHN TO SPEAK AT LIBERAL CLUB | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

PAULUS Fy-Helene Mullins and Marie Gallegher-McBride ($2.00). Ronald Firbank and Daisy Ashford might well have collaborated to produce this picture of the perfect esthete in his home. Paulus was a teacher of French, a student of the graces. With his cat, the sympathetic Cez, he dwelt in a little gem of an apartment, surrounded by precious bibelots. Tragedy came into his delicately ordered life with the death of Cez and the suicide of Mimi, whom he knew only through her letters, but whom he did not have to know in order to love. Others of his loves were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Esthete | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...unpleasant to climb through the top of the ZR-3's passenger cabin to the "cat-walk" running through the bottom of the hull? which provides only an 8-inch footing and 2-foot rail room at the top? for a walk that must be solitary and executed with great caution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight's End | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

...Sodality, which came into being in 1813. The two clubs had the same interests, but the matter was settled through diplomacy, and the Arionic Sodality became extinct. Occasionally the records mention other clubs which still exist. In June, 1844, two members cut rehearsals as they preferred to attend a cat-fight in the Phi Beta Kappa rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quaint Pamphlet Relates Early History of Oldest Musical Organization in U.S. | 10/21/1924 | See Source »

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