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Word: cats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with no reputation for tact, Monty acquitted himself nobly. At West Point he studied a practice session of the Army football squad. "I hope your team wins all its matches," he ventured. "Your West Point," he commented later, "is absolutely the cat's whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Match Game | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Missouri, where Harry Truman won his intraparty cat-&-dog fight (see The Presidency), voters chose two politically pallid rivals to contest for Harry Truman's old Senate spot. Smalltime publisher Frank P. Briggs, now filling the seat by appointment, breezed through the Democratic primary; Republicans went overboard for James P. Kern, well-to-do Kansas City lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who Won, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Allen Smith has reason to like cats better than dogs. Before he turned to writing best-selling books (Low Man on a Totem Pole, Life in a Putty Knife Factory), he wrote newspaper features, including movie-star interviews. During that ordinarily harmless tour of duty, the late Lupe Velez once became so agitated that she threw a small brown dog at him. Now, at long last, Author Smith has written a novel about a cat, a large yellow alley cat called Rhubarb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat Tale | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Rhubarb, which comes from Jackson Heights, Long Island, falls heir to a fortune left by a Manhattan hair-oil magnate. By virtue of the same will, it also becomes owner of a big-league baseball club known as the New York Loons. It is natural enough for such a cat to be: 1) a guest expert on a radio quiz program (so that Smith can have some fun with Information Please); 2) play host at a literary cocktail party (with much kidding of a large lady who is presumably Elsa Maxwell); 3) pose for a TIME cover (still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat Tale | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...room, but in spots the book is good slapstick satire and funny in a broad Broadway way. By the end, with the help of a Runyonesque assortment of low characters, including an outfielder and a lady wrestler, Author Smith somehow manages to make it into something resembling a novel. Cat lovers may have their doubts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat Tale | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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