Word: catting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony musicians had seen their tall, usually self-confident program producer, Don Gillis, looking like a colicky cat before-the last time, the day Arturo Toscanini first rehearsed Gillis' new Symphony 5^ (TIME, Sept...
...taken a bit of doing, but the love & romance comics had succeeded in doing the impossible: they had found a way to simplify the "I see the cat" prose long purveyed by the older pulps. Like the pulps, the comics generally pictured handsome heroes with hearts of gold, equally handsome villains with chests of gold, and beautiful heroines with obvious reasons for being led astray. The moral in all the stories was dutifully plain: justice and virtue eventually triumphed...
...down with a frigid hauteur, as he sometimes did, I could have been swept up in a teaspoon. But when he moved in on me grandly and condescended to occupy my lap, I felt as though I'd made the Social Register." Death had taken Scoopy the Cat, the most celebrated literary feline since Don Marquis discovered mehitabel...
Litter Perfect. In South Houston, Tex., a stray yellow alley cat wandered into the local post office building and gave birth to tour kittens under the Special Delivery table...
...Menace (Republic), Hollywood's first full-length ABC of U.S. communism, is like most primers: earnest and elementary. In fact, it is so elementary that it hardly gets beyond spelling out the ideological equivalent of cat...