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Word: catting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure enough, several hours later Graney heard the scraping of a cat's feet outside his door. Interviewed after his feat, Graney was modest. "It wuz nuthin'," he blushed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FLASH' GRANEY RECAPTURES COOLIDGE'S LOST BLACK CAT | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

Bill "Flash" Graney, night janitor at Lowell House, proved himself the hero of the hour yesterday when he captured a cat for Julian Lowell Coolidge '96, professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FLASH' GRANEY RECAPTURES COOLIDGE'S LOST BLACK CAT | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

After the Coolidge household had been thrown into consternation when Mr. Coolidge's small black cat was nowhere to be found, "Flash" Graney moved into action. Judiciously depositing an attractive, if slightly used herring outside the janitor's office, he sat back snugly and awaited his victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FLASH' GRANEY RECAPTURES COOLIDGE'S LOST BLACK CAT | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

...share while Mr. Marien was doing its accounting. That fact was noted with interest by SEC. But before Mr. McCall and SEC can find out anything very definite they will have to wait while a new firm of accountants tries heroically to untangle Mr. Marien's cat's cradle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Impulsive Accountant | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting satisfaction of eavesdropping on his own funeral, the adventure of being lost in the great cave with Becky-these are still the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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