Word: herrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Residents of Manhattan's smart East End Avenue and Henderson Place did not know what they had to contend with when their cats began to disappear last fortnight. Even a socialite cat may stray, but when Writer Gilbert Seldes' Daisy, Lawyer Walter Richmond Herrick's Tiddles and several other pets vanished in quick succession it began to look as though there were a gatophobe in the neighborhood. Peter Herrick, 10, whose favorite pet Tiddles had been for some seven years, took to his bed with a fever, would not be comforted...
...night Timothy, other Herrick cat, also disappeared. Few hours later the anxious family was awakened by a faint, insistent mewing. Mr. Herrick traced the cries to the backyard of his next-door neighbor, Broker John Parkinson Jr. Pushing aside a loose fence paling, he beheld a specially-designed cat trap containing Timothy and the remains of some stale fish...
...Secretary of the Interior. Disliking cats, Bride Parkinson had been sympathetic when her servants complained of nightly prowling & yowling. She decided to act when some cats leaped through her windows while she was entertaining dinner guests. She got a trap from the International Cat Investigating Society (to which Lawyer Herrick, then New York City's Park Commissioner, had sent a letter of encouragement when it formed in 1931 to agitate for licensing of the city's pet cats, destruction of its strays). Last week the Society's Secretary & General Manager James M. Loughborough said he had taken...
...College usually take it in a fit of ambition to pass off language requirements rapidly. Occasionally, however, an unusual upperclassman accepts the challenge to learn all the grammar in a few months, read 1500 pages of moderately difficult literature, and attend sessions five times a week under Dr. Herrick's tutelage...
Occasionally a man is a course and a course is a man, and so wedded are the two that separation of them defies the greatest feats of imagination. So it is with German B. Without Dr. Herrick the tremendous scope and perfect efficiency of the course is inconceivable; with him it remains an eighth wonder. Dr. Herrick is a born pedagog, inspiring, able to induce a desire for knowledge and to get results. He has a wealth of anecdotal and related information which makes the driest, application of Grimm's law or the third rule...