Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Backhouse's specialty and his favorite yarn is about a retired gunner's mate who dozed off and let his evening newspaper fall against the red-hot kitchen stove. "Fire!'" screamed his wife as the paper blazed. Waking up with a start, the mate rammed the family cat into the oven, banged the door and roared, "Ready, Sir." Though the United Kingdom never heard last week that whimsical Admiral Backhouse & Home Fleet had sailed for Gibraltar, the fact of their arrival finally appeared tucked quietly away in London papers, while world headlines were screaming "WAR!" from Chicago to Canton...
...boat outfooted Norna all the way around a windward and leeward course. Next day, in a light breeze that favored the defender, she won again, this time with four minutes to spare. The last race of the series was sailed on one of those muggy, misty afternoons when a cat's-paw, brushing the surface of the Sound, was visible for half a mile. Skipper Shields, better acquainted with the waters, handling a boat whose underwater design gave her as much advantage running before a light breeze as Norna had tacking into a stiff one, stalked the Norwegian boat...
...fact that officials of numerous Standard Oil companies and subsidiaries denied any connection whatever with Francis M. Rickett of whom they said they had never heard, the U. S. fiscal reaction was: "This whole thing looks queer." With President Roosevelt just done up by the Senate in a neutrality cat's cradle, what U. S. syndicate, asked Wall Streeters, has millions to risk in Ethiopia, where U. S. economic interest would have to begin by calling for the Marines...
...contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers at their training camp, played on Detroit...
...agree with your cinema critic that She is a very mediocre spectacle. But evidently the poor dear could not sit through the picture without an occasional cat...