Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most secret of the secret groups, perhaps, are the Followers of Hogan, of whom little is known. Some say their patron saint is a common domestic animal, maybe even a cat. Be that as it may the clan, though it rarely convenes, is summoned with the immortal words: "The Followers of Hogan will meet at Hogan's Grave at midnight tonight. Hogan would want it that...
...rest of the winter's first big tourney, the $7,500 North & South Open at swanky Pinehurst last week, was uphill work for Hogan against his old enemy-himself. Ben froze a tabby-cat grin on his face, paid no attention to anyone else's score. He walked fast; a hare-&-hounds trail of cigarets marked his route; he smoked a cigaret half through, dropped it to make a shot, then lit another. If this was a sign of nervousness, his 170 rivals -many of whom had given up tobacco to steady their nerves-didn't think...
...wrote and illustrated all but a few of the 27 now-famed Tales. Beatrix Potter was deeply aware, says Author Lane, "of the realities of nature . . . and the laws of nature . . . are nowhere softened or sentimentalized in any of her stories"-though they are often made humorous. Ginger, the cat who runs the grocery store in The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, will sell his groceries to any animals except mice. " 'I cannot bear,' said he, 'to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels...
Long, lean Harry Bridges had Hawaii tied up like a cat's cradle. Sitting in his San Francisco waterfront office 2,400 miles away, he could chuckle as Hawaii's "Big Five"-the five companies* ?which control most of the island's basic crops and business-fretted and fumed. Two strikes had done...
Witch Kopp: Four times the Crimson cat hath claw...