Word: catting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window, entered, smashed two sets of china, emptied the refrigerator on the kitchen floor, basted the mess with mustard, scattered the contents of some bedroom dressers, built a fire on the livingroom floor, knifed a chicken, let the mule out of the pasture, and painted the family cat & dog green...
Cartoonist Jack Lambert of the New Dealing Chicago Sun needled New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey with a sly "The Cat's Got His Tongue" (see cut). At the American Legion's convention last week, Front-Runner Dewey publicly endorsed universal military training, thus evoking from Legionnaire Harold E. Stassen the comment that it was nice to hear Mr. Dewey taking a stand on something...
...that they are unhappy; 57% think they are fairly happy; 38% consider themselves very happy, and 1% can't tell. Nevertheless, one in three knocks on wood for luck, one in ten believes in throwing spilled salt over his shoulder and one in five shudders when a black cat crosses his path...
Secrecy enveloped the crisis until bumbling Defense Minister A. V. Alexander let the cat out of the bag at a Navy League dinner. He said: "I'm sorry I'm late, but I've just left a Cabinet meeting. This is one of the most momentous days in the history of the British Empire, and I advise you to listen to the Chancellor of the Exchequer tonight...
They pushed and sweated in the heat, gawked at industrial and agricultural displays, baby shows, flower, dog, cat, cattle and horse shows, and at a bulletproof Mercédès-Benz limousine billed as "Hitler's Car." Then they trudged on to look at the latest developments in trains and television. They walked for miles-from a well-advertised Art Gallery nude to the Men's Tea-Making Contest...