Word: catting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heathsville, Va., a strange disease seized hold of all the cats. Felines frolicking in cellars or licking their paws upon doorsteps would suddenly become languid with fever and then, in a short space, perish. What the scurf was, if, indeed, it had a name, no one knew; they knew only that when it attacked a cat, there was no hope left for the beast's life; that it had already attacked and killed most of Heathsville cats; that a year ago, all the rabbits in the vicinity of Heathsville had likewise perished of a mysterious plague...
Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
...cold relish for cruelty and a quiet gusto for torture are not untypical of the Celestial race. Who has traversed China without seeing children play, unreproved, the game of cat tails. Two or more stray cats are caught, tied together by their extremities, hung over a convenient limb, and left to claw out each others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once...
...Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, who roundly flayed U. S. public schools for their excessive cost, their waste of youth's time, their superficial courses, their poor preparation for college. Said President Lowell: "The saying that there are many ways of killing a cat besides choking it with butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop...
...wife of meat packer) have a dog farm at Highland Park, Ill. Last week a cat crept in among 150 of the dogs; created a yapping, snapping havoc. A passerby rescued the cat, helped quiet the dogs, asked for a fine bulldog, was granted his request...