Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word." Somehow, the story remained a secret in Washington for three days. Then the cat was let out of the bag -while Harry Truman was campaigning, in upstate New York. He returned to Washington in time to meet Marshall, debarking from the "Presidential Special." The President turned away reporters with a gay wave. Didn't he have something to say about the Vinson affair? He grinned: "Not a word...
...proud and selfseeking Virginian has ruthlessly kicked Washington, the Eagle Scout who could not tell a lie, off his pedestal for keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that he was "open and honest and free from guile...
...last week a gaunt and hungry tomeat approached Agassiz Hall in Radcliffe Yard. The girls looked upon this tragic figure of a cat, and took pity. They took it in and fed it scraps from a tuna fish sandwich...
...week Arthur the Alley Cat enjoyed the comfort of his surroundings in the coal bin of Agassiz. Yesterday he decided to show his gratitude. Arthur brought a live mouse into the girls' smoking room at Agassiz...
...this purpose more than 500 men, including 367 residents of Apley, Claverly, Dudley, and Little, have been accorded full House privileges, and now cat at one of the seven Houses. Last year the 500 ate at the Union and had no such non-resident privileges...