Word: kitten
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Amelia Earhart Putnam, Ladies' Night guest of honor at Manhattan's Explorers Club, prepared to present a blue Persian kitten as club mascot. William J. Morden, Asiatic big-game hunter and explorer, announced that the aviatrix. in accordance with ancient Inca custom, would anoint the cat's feet with oil to prevent its straying from home. Boomed a voice in the rear: ''Bill's wife says to put some oil on his feet...
...bright girl called Barry would roll on the floor for extended periods like a happy, playing kitten...
...Spitz would win the event, if not a new record. At 6:4, a height at which W. B. Page barely managed to hurl himself over an old-fashioned square bar in 1888 for the first U. S. high jump record, he cleared the bar as easily as a kitten hopping across a spool. Best of the field against him was a thin coffee-colored Negro, Howard Spencer, of Geneva College, who, even more eccentric than Spitz, wore one shoe and jumped with his right foot bare. Spencer took three tries and missed before Spitz reached 6:7. Later, with...
...resemblance to life. A crook (Clive Brook) on the point of being executed for murder, confesses to a priest. His confession, which constitutes the main portion of the picture, shows that, though innocent, he is maintaining a pretense of guilt to shield his daughter (Peggy Shannon). Good shot: a kitten playing with the ball of wool under which the crook has cached a roll of stolen money...
...birthday. Interviewers wished they might see him as he used to be seen in his Colorado laboratory a generation ago, strolling or sitting like a calm Mephistopheles amid blazing, thundering cascades of sparks 30 ft. long, Tesla currents alternating at such prodigious frequency that they would not harm a kitten. But instead they found him, not without some difficulty, in seclusion on the 20th floor of Manhattan's Hotel Governor Clinton. Pale but healthy, thin to ghostlincss but strong and alert as ever, he received his callers in quiet. His , hair is slate grey, overhanging eyebrows almost black. His eyes...