Word: cats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes later he walked out-first envoy of a major power thus informally to be received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
Tientsin. Having backed down at Swatow, the Japanese military at Tientsin, where they claimed the British were harboring anti-Japanese terrorists (TIME, June 26), became ever bolder. Live wire encircled the British and French Concessions, had by week's end killed a cat and a coolie. As food got scarcer, 1,500 Britons within the area realized that for all practical purposes they were imprisoned. Those who tried to get in or out were stripped, searched, cuffed. The colony settled down to make the best of the situation. Unable to go to the British Country Club, outside the Concession...
...Germany last week the harvest, which is expected to be better than average, had hardly begun. But 60,000 Czechs, 45,000 Slovaks were brought into the Reich to gather it. Italy promised to send 37,000 katzelmacher (cat-eaters, so called because Bavarians suppose starving Italian field-hands steal and stew German cats). Every German woman was urged to go out on the land, help gather in the crops. It was estimated that at least 500,000 women of 60 years or more are doing farm labor in the Reich. Members of the Hitler Youth movement were commanded...
...Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's more steadfast opponents, Conservative Winston Churchill has long been the cat that walked by himself when he was not clawing the Government for its haste to appease and its tardiness to arm. Like the sly puss in Kipling's Just So Stories, he has had to sit beyond the cozy Government hearth, destined never to warm a Cabinet corner unless somebody spoke him a kind word. Presumably because Winston Churchill is not only the Conservative Party's best brain but its most unpredictable personality, safe & sane Conservatives withheld their kind words until...
Died. Jack Osterman, 37, famed ad-libbing, ad-bibbing comedian, called "The Banter King of Broadway"; of pneumonia; in Atlantic City. Once accosted by a Broadway trull with the traditional: "What are you doing tonight, honey?" cat-witted Osterman sighed: "I'm making a Gaumont film. Thank God somebody asked...