Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing in a cat magazine, Clyde E. Keeler, instructor in Ophthalmic Research, recently predicted that it was only a question of time before some one would come up with a cat which would be a blue-smoke color with black fur filmed with silver...
...nominate New York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia for 1937 Man of the Year because he was the first person ever to tie the bell of doom around the neck of that nine-lived Tammany cat two times...
...week and the appearance of his first American biography*-his third in English-for a book that would do justice to his lush Bohemian personality and his stature as a composer. Author Thompson, music critic of the New York Sun, paints an intimate picture. Debussy not only resembled a cat; he lived with live cats and collected porcelain cats. His living cats were always grey angoras, always named Line. His women were less uniform. To him the four most important were Mme Vasnier, wife of an aging friend, who brought him from adolescence to manhood; green-eyed Gabrielle Dupont...
Aboard S. S. Virginia bound for Panama, traveling alone in a $125 first-class stateroom, under special diet, was Prince Rahula, a Siamese cat...
...voyage resolved itself into a game of mutinous cat-&-mouse, with starvation, disease and storms putting in their savage claws. When the big mutiny broke out at Bay St. Julien. Magellan made a real killing. He drew and quartered one Spanish captain, decapitated the second, marooned the third. Eight seamen were hung, 40 others imprisoned without food. For their edification Magellan offered the chained exhibit of a big friendly savage who. before he starved to death three weeks later, had almost chewed himself out of his shackles. When Magellan's cruelty threatened to alienate even his own bodyguard...