Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neighbors who tore up a copy of one of his books, sent the pieces in a parcel to Moore, marked "Too filthy to keep in the house." Every night thereafter Moore would rattle his stick on their railing to make their dogs bark. He also stoned the spinsters' cat, because he said it was after a blackbird that sang in his garden. Both sides appealed to the S. P. C. A. Then Moore set a trap for the cat. He caught the bird. (Moore told this story himself; Yeats doubts its complete integrity...
...deeply regret that atmospheric conditions will soon be such that many nights we shall have to retire without obtaining his clear, complete, nonpartisan, well interpreted picture of the day's news. Fifteen minutes with Paul Sullivan at the microphone seems to pass as quickly as a scared cat through a doorway...
...Charley. That's what they musta figured when the dirt started fallin' in on 'em. . . . Did they want to be standin' there when the lead poured in? They wanted to be home readin' a book or teachin' their kid c-a-t spells cat or takin' a woman out into the country in an open car with the wind blowin...
Build me a home; I am lonely, Lonely for a chimney and cat. I've been about and I've found out Life's too big for a flat...
Against such odds there was doubt whether even popular Governor Horner could win. But excitement was high because more hung on the primary than the fate of Horner and the Kelly machine. Two more big pins in the cat's cradle of Illinois politics are Colonel Knox, publisher of Chicago's Daily News and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of Chicago's Tribune. Both men and both sheets are Republican. Both are interested in the gubernatorial fights in both parties. Both are at swords' points on all points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under...