Word: cats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing no favorites, Poet MacNeice represents the activities of his molelike rubes and his lizard-like slickers as equally unsatisfactory. He conveys the impression, nevertheless, that Something is watching both like a cat. What that Something is his poems fail to signify-except that it is deadly to human moles and lizards. Bagpipe Music gives a crazy rehearsal of things done in town and country, raises echoes that such things will not do. For townees the echo runs...
...retail at between $5 and $50. Real "Strads," violins made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, bring from $10,000 to $85,000. There are only about 540 authentic known Strads in existence, 163 of which are owned in the U. S., and when one of them changes hands the cat-eyed dealers and collectors of three continents record the event...
...expedition to the Belgian Congo. Purposes: to make a motion picture survey of certain parts of the country for Belgian Congo's National Park Institute; to take sound film material suitable for use in an African movie. Explorer Denis, his wife, cameramen, and Pooka, a cat (which survived sand storms and a fight with a leopard, only to be run over later on a quiet New England country road) pushed their way through jungles and over mountains never before seen by the cinecamera's eye. The film has not yet been released, but some of the most exciting...
...stone which he frequently picks up on motor trips to Connecticut. Ferber has been working for only six years but has already been through four great influences in that period: African, Egyptian, Mexican and Lachaise. Best whittling: The Wrestlers, in mahogany, and Worker, in lignum-vitae. Best stone work: Cat, from a cobblestone...
...applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think of deliberately and knowingly placing these preservative poisons into his digestive system. Nevertheless, this is what is done every day by persons who cat hamburgers, apples, dried fruits, and many other foods. Bichloride of mercury may be a fine antiseptic, but it is hardly a nourishing food...