Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Placid Cats. Drs. Philip Bard and Vernon B. Mountcastle of Johns Hopkins told of experiments with half-brained cats. Some years ago they discovered that when its whole forebrain was removed, a cat became uncontrollably ferocious, reacting with outrage to the slightest provocation. Apparently the lower brain, the seat of anger, was dominating the cat in the absence of the forebrain...
...absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
...critics gasped, too. "This film," said the Observer, "has all the morals of an alley cat and the sweetness of a sewer." Said the Sunday Pictorial: "A piece of nauseating muck." Wrote Steven Watts in the Sunday Express: "The worst film I have ever seen." From the august Manchester Guardian came utter damnation: "Thoroughly un-British...
Local haberdashers set wavering odds from 2 to 23 in favor of the pullet pulitzers, depending on the availability of antique fireballer R. Sibley (The Cat) Ludendorff, currently nursing a soggy-salary wing on the eve of the morning after...
This is British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee speaking. As readers of his abridged, bestselling A Study of History (TIME, March 17, 1947) well know, on the Toynbee time-&-space scale the Dark Ages are a mere cat nap and the British Empire a flash in the pan. In these 13 essays, mostly written in the past two years, Toynbee again underlines "the lone and outlandish music of ... parochial history" and speaks of the nations of this world as "subordinate and ephemeral political phenomena...