Word: catting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray, his wife "Freddie," and their three children, looked forward to being in their new house on Columbia Road. Said Gray: "We'll hang up the sang chi sheng (mistletoe) and the mao erh to tzu (cat's ears or thorn of holly) and startle passing ricksha boys with God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen...
...backyard outside Peoria. Dick had just come out of the house in an old felt hat and a checkered woolen shirt. He looked more like a leathery, slow-moving farmer. But that was because you couldn't see much of his hide. He'd been working with cat acts for 30 years and he had scars all over him. Doctors had taken 118 stitches in his back and dozens more in his arms and legs...
Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...
Dick went on hitting like crazy, belting cats over the eyes with his broomstick. It took 15 minutes, but finally, one by one, he got them back to their places. Two of the cubs were down; one was dead with a broken neck and the other was torn up and dying. The other two scuttled off into the chute. Dick got each big cat out in turn, and ended the act right. He was not hurt...
...evident that Reader Williams [TIME, Oct. 21] knows much less about cats than TIME. He is suffering under the general false impression that cats only hunt mice and rats when hungry, therefore a poor skinny cat makes a good hunter...