Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CAT-Colette-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Cat tells the story of Saha, a golden-eyed, jealous, aristocratic little animal that broke up a marriage, sapped the strength of young Alain Amparat until he came to care more for her than for his handsome wife. That Colette can make such a tale readable will be no surprise to her admirers. That she can manage to include in it many artful descriptions of amorous misadventures and much erotic play, they will take for granted. But if they expect her to make it plausible as well, they are demanding more of her fiction than she will give them...
Alain was blond, handsome, a little priggish, a pampered only son. He bought Saha at a cat show, raised her for three years, delighted in her quiet, affectionate tricks. He had a few misgivings when he married Camille, who was modern, athletic, informed, impulsive, changeable as a mountain stream. But he lost them during their honeymoon and only began to harbor a secret resentment at Camille's plans for remaking their house. While it was being done over they lived on the ninth floor of a Paris apartment, to which Alain soon found an excuse for bringing...
...small game. And don't you believe there isn't ample time to garden, hunt and fish! I have myself lived in a house scarcely better-built than the shack pictured in TIME. It was a four-room box, tar-paper-roofed, and you could throw a cat through the cracks in the walls. We whitewashed it, papered it ourselves, and by the time my mother, a very frail woman, had planted simple flowers, the wretched place looked rather charming. Except for actual ploughing, we raised a garden and fed ourselves entirely save for sugar, salt, coffee...
...schools with no strings attached, to be upped to a maximum of $300,000,000. Delegates were enthusiastic, if mystified, when Secretary Willie A. Lawson of the Arkansas Education Association declared: "We think that a government which . . . refused to consider permanent Federal aid is using us as a cat's-paw to scorch our fingers with the burning chestnuts of political favoritism...