Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sounded like her tabby-cat...
...Whether" by the chaste Vesta Volodia is out of the Russian spirit, though in itself a good story. In this it is robbed of the gentle sting of parody. "Silent as a cat he rose to his feet and swung his great two-handed sword over her head." This is romance, not realism. And I feel sure Vesta's compatriots wouldn't let their sense of romance run away with them after her fashion...
Maurice de Feraudy. In Les Affaires Sont les Affaires (Business is Business), this distinguished veteran of the Comedie Française calls himself "the tiger cat." But he hardly spits. His sense of humor is so overflowing that in the scenes where he should be yowling he is purring. In all his varied repertoire he seems certain that what this sad old world needs most is comedy. He prefers to exchange drama for a wink...
Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "Under my signature in The New York World, I wrote that on the 14th of September [the night I fought Dempsey] I was not even in condition to face a sick cat...
...result is the present situation, in which the cat chases his own tail. Failing to get the requisite marks in the first place, the student is given an extra handicap in the shape of probation and told to produce even higher grades than before. While the paternal system exists, probation, as a punishment for disciplinary offenses, may be justified, but a s a remedy for low marks and based on inconclusive marks, probation can hardly be other than short-sighted and utterly unjust...