Word: cats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...
Certainly moppets who can take A. A. Milne will take Possum and like him, for, e.g., the disreputable cat character whose saga begins...
Growltiger was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge...
...Cats, said Dr. Charles Arthur Slanetz, pathologist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at the Medical Center, are sometimes used for laboratory work on diet, diabetes and drugs. But none of the cats in the college comes from Alexander's alleys. All cats are bought from laboratory animal houses which supply with each purchase a family history and a listing of the animal's age, behavior, eating habits. Alexander, continued Dr. Slanetz, undersold his competitors, for high-class cat prices range from $1.25 to $1.50, depending on size...
President Conant's cat met severe injury in its posterior quarters last night. No one seemed to know how the cat weathered the injury or how the accident occurred...