Word: kittenized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a report which reached the U. S. last week, M. Letard has mated each of the parents to other cats but from such unions has never obtained a naked kitten. A naked kitten, after growing up and being mated to a normal cat, has uniformly normal litters. But when two of the hairless cats were mated to each other, they had an entirely hairless litter. The hairlessness was thus seen to be a recessive Mendelian character. By mating one hairless animal with another, Dr. Letard has obtained a true-breeding strain. Up to last week no buyers...
...early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
...Confrey's most memorable composition is Kitten on The Keys...
Thurston has, to date, received two letters, one of which is from Chicago, asking for the custody of the kitten. The Chicago correspondent has written that her daughter has already selected a name for the animal...
Colonel Apted, though, has been favored by more attention. He has eight letters, asking him for the supposedly unwanted kitten, and his secretary is already showing definite signs of wear from answering "innumerable" phone calls...