Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political enthusiasm reached its highest pitch last night when Senator Carter Glass of Virginia was nominated on the seventh ballot of the mock Democratic convention. A crowd of several hundred students thronged the main floor while the gallery was lined with professors and other interested spectators. Shouts, cries, cat-calls and cheers echoed from all parts of the New Lecture Hall when the different favorite sons were vote...
...long been alleged that the political security of Senor Leguia depends upon the number of North American financial mice that he can catch in his trap. The Guaranty cat having frightened all the mice away, Senor Leguia roared, ranted and raved, then wrote to .Mr. Hughes in Washington. He was particularly angry that the Guaranty Trust had warned a certain New Orleans company against undertaking the development of the port of Callao.* He had when "elected"† promised his people lots of money and lots of economic entertainment, but the wicked New York bank having acquired an option on loan...
...Story. Renard, lusting for chicken fricasee, disguises herself as a nun and attempts to make off with the Cock, but is foiled by the alertness of the Cat and the Goat, who frighten her away. Renard tries again, disguised as a tramp, and, with the lure of sweetmeats, almost gets her way with the Cock. She begins to pluck the screaming fowl when the Cat and the Goat again come to the rescue and dispatch the marauder, ending the piece with a dance of triumph...
...impression one gains from this new play of the small town. Author Purdy, won with his comedy-drama the prize of $500 offered by the Chautauqua circuit for the best play without sex; he earned every nickel of it. He walks around that tabooed subject more carefully than a cat around a saucer of cream...
...Tiger," Chief Executive of the cat family, and official tom cat of the White House, set out for parts unknown during a storm. WCAP, broadcasting from the Capital, announced the departure and requested all good citizens to urge the prodigal pussy to return...