Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cat" is a commonplace phrase in the United States. To most Americans, it is a simple suggestion that can be acted on with neither delay nor trouble. To most Americans, "food" is a word that carries little meaning, in these times compared with such words as "liberty" and "peace," or "communism" and "democracy." But in much of the rest of the world, the idea of "let's eat" is the dominant thought in the mind of every human being. When a man's food consumption averages 1,150 calories daily, he is not likely to be a communist...
...given a hearing at Saturday's rally, and defends the heckling on this ground. But the meeting was frankly advertised as a rally,--not a forum, or a discussion group, or a debate in any sense. And surely Mr. Cobb does not contend that the mob of cat-callers had any intention of engaging in serious discussion, or that they attended the meeting with any purpose other than that of disruption. To call the representatives of such a mob "responsible" is manifestly absurd...
...first speaker, Emanuel Margolis 1G, president of the Wallace Committee, was greeted by a series of cat-calls and boos. "I thought we were still living in a democracy where people have the right to talk," he shouted at the demonstrators...
Arrived: junketing Columnist Earl Wilson; at the Ernest Hemingway farm outside Havana. Among the Wilson news flashes to the home folks: that the Hemingways now have 22 cats in their house, all in one room, and "Sure," says Hemingway, "we're going to call the room 'the cat house...
...other clues weren't much help: the strains of Annie Laurie and Auld Lang Syne; a neighing, galloping horse (Eddie Cantor was a wrong guess); cat yowls; a horn tootling. Columnists and rocking-chair dopesters were certain they had it. Some of the "sure things": Sir Harry Lauder, George Gallup, Mayor O'Dwyer, Jack Benny, Gene Tunney, All-America Fullback Doak Walker...