Word: catting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They have more scandal on the top of their tongue than the famous Barber's cat, and for sport they are worse than a lot of chicken doctors. So if ever I should be on a jury there are three parties I would never believe under oath, ministers, policemen and D.D.S...
...record. The figure was James Francis Burke, general counsel of Republican National Committee. What balked the photographers was that the Burke leave-taking of President Hoover's inner political household was not a formal, visible occurrence but a gradual fading-out process, like Alice's Cheshire cat, "beginning with the end of the tail and ending with the grin that remained some time after the rest of it had gone...
...Cheshire-cat smile on Mr. Burke's face as it faded from the White House picture was caused largely by one event: Otto Hermann Kahn, international banker and art patron, declined appointment by Senator George Higgins Moses to serve as treasurer of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (TIME...
...Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...
...right, Your Worship," said he. "Mrs. Cratchitt and I, we've forgotten our little differences. I've arranged to pay all her debts. As a matter of fact, I've done pretty well. For 30 years I've had a cat's meat round in the City, and if I do say so I'm a man of independent means...