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Harold L. ("Terrible-Tempered") Ickes, asked for the umpteenth time if he expected to quit his Interior Secretaryship soon, tried a kittenish answer for a change: "That cat has more than nine lives. . . . Besides, I don't like cats...
...hours she sat in her corner, staring silently into space, her pupils dilated, her heart pounding, her breathing labored. She shunned her old friends, refused to eat for days at a time. Occasionally she became agitated or infantile and kittenish. But often she just sat, in a catatonic stupor, brooding and lonely, quiet...
...With cheerful optimism our little Columbus descended into the vast uncharted waste-then stopped, stepped, slipped and slid"). It kids the stylized exaggerations of Big Jim, a notable heavy, by referring to him as "the noble type. . . . Oh, how he loved to suffer"; it anticipates Georgia's atrocious, kittenish, dated antics by introducing her to the audience with the single expletive: "Georgia...
From the underwear industry last week came a kittenish echo of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Memphis Incident. Announced by Blue Swan Mills (manufacturers of Minnikins, Frillikins, Smoothikins, many anotherkins) was the Panty-of-the-Month for December. It will be made of olive-drab cotton and rayon, archly embroidered (on the left hip) "Yoo-Hoo." Its inevitable name: Yoo-Hooikins...
There is nothing prophetic about Toward a Philosophy of History. Written mostly during Ortega's exile after the fall of Loyalist Spain, this book, like much of his writing, jumbles acute discernments about politics, society, people, side by side with kittenish comment, mental gymnasties, clever stories. The writing is spontaneous and good-natured, like the talk of a popular professor who feels superior to his class but does not take himself too seriously...