Word: cats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps no dog but a cat...
...columning for a few hundred neighbors. Exciting examples: Joseph Chase Allen's "With The Fishermen" in the Martha's Vineyard Gazette (tangy dockside gossip about a picturesque industry); Douglas Meador's "Trail Dust" in his Matador, Tex., Tribune (sentimental homilies on the old Southwest) ; "The Pole Cat Editor" of the Sikeston, Mo. Standard...
Sikeston's "Pole Cat" is Editor Charles Blanton himself, a salty, 75-year-old veteran of small-town journalism whose son Henry is Federal District Attorney in St. Louis, whose daughter, Catherine, is Senator Pat Harrison's secretary in Washington. Incensed by the Negro sharecroppers who camped alongside a road in nearby New Madrid County last month, "The Pole Cat" backed up and let fly as follows: "The question was asked if the babies and small children in the exodus to the roadsides had milk to drink, and was answered by an onlooker that the only milk given...
Mainly concerned with the news behind the political and military front, Hay took note, however, of many a minor picturesque happening, such as the visit of a temperance delegation, "looking blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from...
...Hartley, Neb., while John Proud milked his cow, the cow stepped on a cat's tail. The cat scratched the cow. The cow kicked at the cat, struck John Proud's wife, broke her left leg. As Proud pulled his wife out of further harm's way, the cow kicked again, broke the left leg of John Proud...