Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattanite who wrote him suggesting playgrounds for dogs, New York's scholarly Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran replied: "The city is a hard place for a dog. . . . Cats do better. . . . One of the most beautiful sights in nature is the hindquarters of the common cat upended on the rim of a garbage...
Since an Egyptian bronze cat was installed at the St. Louis City Art Museum last month, attendance has increased rapidly. Last week the museum announced that the August total of visitors, 51,323, was the greatest since May 1914. The announcement was edged with rue however, because what the cat really dragged in for the St. Louis museum was trouble. Fortnight ago St. Louisans of such varied stripes as the Women's Chamber of Commerce and the American Artists' Congress were swelling with indignation at the purchase of a $14,400 piece of ancient sculpture while St. Louis...
...detached from political control until 1911, when an independent Board of Control was set up and a special property tax of 2? on every $100 of assessed value was levied for museum maintenance. A recurrent impulse of St. Louis city administrations is to rescind this tax. When the cat controversy brought up such a proposal, the present Board of Estimate & Apportionment promptly recommended a reduction of the tax to if per $100 and the reinvestment of museum control in City Hall. Last week the Board of Aldermen was petitioned to submit this to the people in the November elections...
...last week museum and cat were the subject of public clamor. Members of the Women's Chamber of Commerce called on the mayor for repeal of the special tax from which the museum derived $239,000 last year. The city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting...
Last year the St. Louis City Art Museum received 330,000 visits from St. Louisans, listed few purchases of contemporary art. Disinterested citizens last week were able to debate this policy while doubting not at all the "lasting value" of the cat, an image of the Goddess Ubasti from the 6th Century B.C. Comparable to great similar bronzes in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the Cleveland Museum and the Bliss Collection in Washington, D. C., it possesses, as the museum eloquently pointed out, "in a static pose, the strength and snap of a taut bow string...