Word: catting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haines, have been confined recently to short practice brushes on the straight stretches below the Weld Boathouse, but have revealed power in these work-outs. They have been supplied with a training table in the Smith Halls Dining Room this week and all first-year oarsmen will cat there for the remainder of the season...
...Mitchel Field, 25,000 swarmed up to the landing field, bought out sandwich stands, played with the cat which was abandoned by Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many incidents which had been omitted in the other, such as the mad tea-party, the caucus race, the Cheshire Cat's technique of vanishing, and the two resplendent lyrics which began " 'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail . . ." and " 'Tis the voice of a lobster; I heard him declare...
...written on a hot summer afternoon in 1862 to amuse a couple of little girls. Today in Harvard it is used, along with "Just So Stories," to illustrate philosophy lectures. Quotations from it head the chapter in a textbook of economic theory. The Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat are co-immortal with pious Aeneas and Tom Jones...
...This bromide* has been put to good use by the alert Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would be to solve the troubles...