Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME apologizes for confusing cat-owning onetime Justice William Redwood Smith with non-cat-owning Justice William Amos Smith. The application by William Redwood Smith for a restraining order to prevent the city of Topeka from enforcing an ordinance limiting the number of cats per citizen to two is on the docket of the Shawnee County District Court, has not yet been acted upon...
During the first two years of Eliot House's existence, its Head Tutor was Professor Matthiessen. In those years he was equally famous for his good China tea, his cat Pretzel, and the part of the Dutch skipper in the House play, which he played quite without fault (Cf. Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday," Mermaid edition). Cats are great favorites with him; he has been known to spend five or ten minutes at a stretch gazing into the eyes of his tabby while it sits in his lap. Just love, apparently. Crayon-drawings of past cats in his life...
...Commander-in-Chief of a People's National Salvation Anti-Japanese Army, pocketed the People's contributions and showed a smiling face in Peiping, he announced that he was going into retirement on the Sacred Mountain of Taishan, in Shantung. Last week his smiling face emerged Cheshire Cat-like again from the mists of Chinese politics. Presumably as a reward for quitting his "private war" against the Japanese, General Chiang last week offered him a choice of three big jobs in the Nanking Government: 1) Inspector General of the Army, 2) Commissioner of Forestation and Colonization...
...Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...
...ever succeeded in what she had now accomplished for the third time-getting rattlesnakes to breed in captivity. Curator Wiley never removes the fangs from her rattlers, ascribes her success in handling them to kindness. She likes to have one coiled in her lap "like a contented old cat" while she sews...