Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gaines examined the freshman class, seniors and the faculty in Maryville College, a small co-educational institution in east Tennessee. They chose 62 words that once were or still are widely considered offensive, asked the students and teachers to indicate whether they used the words: 1) as freely as cat or dog, 2) with a feeling of being bold or modern, 3) only when talking to intimates, 4) never if they could avoid it, or 5) never under any circumstances...
According to a report which reached the U. S. last week, M. Letard has mated each of the parents to other cats but from such unions has never obtained a naked kitten. A naked kitten, after growing up and being mated to a normal cat, has uniformly normal litters. But when two of the hairless cats were mated to each other, they had an entirely hairless litter. The hairlessness was thus seen to be a recessive Mendelian character. By mating one hairless animal with another, Dr. Letard has obtained a true-breeding strain. Up to last week no buyers...
Perky young U. S. composers often try to cut their teeth on symphonies, try writing musical epics before they have learned how to spell cat, musically speaking. An exception is Boston's softspoken, dark-eyed Walter Piston, who last week conducted the premiere of his First Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Like Composers Brahms and Bruckner, Composer Piston had bided his time until he was well into his forties...
...Tussle had done them out of $6,000 worth of overalls and kitchen stoves. The citizens had done it, they said, simply by giving themselves as references for each other and nobody ever seemed to have paid for what he ordered. One of them even got his cat an A credit rating. The inspectors are afraid they will have to make some more arrests, but they think it fortunate for their case that they will be able to take the erring citizens out of Bug Tussle for trial...
Meanwhile in many factory districts throughout Austria stalwart Nazis, mostly Austrians, were busy stripping to the waist workmen known for their Communist or Socialist views, giving them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag...