Word: kittenized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner (gallows), the U. S. manner (lynching). Amid the welter of dead and dying, more gentle readers will find relief in such shots as those of a cat carrying her kitten across a traffic-jammed city street; the Catholic Shrine at Lourdes; a swarm of locusts in Kenya Colony...
...more room available in the body of the vehicle. . . . This gives a much better art possibility for appearance than the old-type car. . . . Sweeping lines can be run clear from the front to the rear-no projections, no bumps, smooth contour, and the sleekness of line of a purring kitten...
...some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually and for a short time. She was beautiful, with eyes that changed their expression from that of a falcon to that of a kitten. They were strange, hazel eyes, full of valor." Having accused him of selling his country's military secrets to Germany, the officers of the French Army in 1894 handed an obscure Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus a pistol, told him it was the officer's way out. Captain Dreyfus...
...over the city everyone had the same idea. Out of their barracks poured squadrons of mounted police riding like Cossacks. Truckloads more roared up to the Union Club. Half an hour later the lights flickered on again. Engineers at the city power plant had found the trouble-small black kitten which had fallen against a switch and short-circuited the city. To stop all further Macedonian talk the animal's charred body was solemnly carried out by Government agents for exhibition to the Press and news photographers...
...some coffee and tea (without sugar or cream) and large quantities of water. A week of that diet lost her 4½ lb., brought her down to 135¾ lb., made her whimper: "I'm hungry. And I'm tired. I couldn't lick a kitten...