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Word: catting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roland Young was selected with un canny precision for this curiously agree able king. He plays with such gentle cun ning that the evening swishes suavely past like a cat in silk pajamas. There are several shrewd helpers and an excellent back stage device to counterfeit the rattles of artillery deploying before the palace in the embattled second act. Mr. Sherwood has contributed much high nonsense, nota bly a bitter game of checkers between the King and a gravely obese footman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...speed is 70 m. p. h. She has visited Bermuda, Porto Rico, flown many training flights at sea; voyaged 50,370 nautical miles since her arrival in 1924. Her usual cruising crew is about 45. She will carry 100 passengers who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patrol | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Those seances should be taken as a game and the audiences should play along with me. If they're so stupid as to take me seriously they're fools. Both of us should kid the inspector. The man who cat-calls me in the dark is a coward, why doesn't he do it when the lights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master Magician of "The Spider" Laments Seriousness of Boston Audience--Fears Harvard Men Will Kid Him in Dark | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...Farrar herself has taken turns in the cinema, won much praise for her Carmen, Maria Rosa, The Woman God Forgot, The Devil's Stone, The Turn of the Wheel, The Hell Cat, Shadows, The Stronger Vow, Joan the Woman, and The Riddle Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again, Farrar | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...every day calls for faithfulness. He is faithful. Remaining unruffled and unhurried when the other Senators come buzzing in from their trips, speechmaking, weekends or committee meetings, calls for patience and tact. Sitting in his back seat, he is a patient as a turtle, as tactful as a cat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis Boom | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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