Word: kittenized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howerth finally conquered the monster he had created, and diabolic old Nicholas Holtz was at last cornered by a kitten. But long before this ingenious horror story lays out its final cadaver, many a germ-haunted reader will be thinking seriously of gargling...
...Grier, and she would not really have minded, but since Grier did not fall in with the idea she let her father put her in a brothel. Grier soon forgot her when he met O Setsu San. the lovely interpreter at an inn called The House of the Playful Kitten. Then an earthquake unexpectedly advanced his suit with his first love, O Kaya San. Soon they were living together. When Grier went back to England, because it was "necessary." he was better able to judge the depth of Japanese emotions...
...fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables, a naughty child tosses scraps of ham fat to a kitten...
...destiny." Whether or not Author Lewis wrote his introduction with his tongue in his cheek, the stories that followed it, with but one shining exception, proved to be long-winded and mechanical, written according to the narrow formula of popular magazine fiction. Examples: ¶ A small boy petted a kitten, thereby causing a barber to give an executive a silly haircut, the executive to lose a job, a business to fail, a revolution to break...
...told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures (all with happy endings) involving personnel and passengers. Chesapeake & Ohio shrewdly publicized itself as the road surveyed and "founded" by George Washington, made a brilliant paragraph of advertising history with its kitten "Chessie" snugly tucked in a berth ("Sleep Like a Kitten...