Word: kittens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge and I are particularly fond of pets and had not been married long when we decided that we must have a cat and, of course, the best cats hail from our native state. Accordingly, to Vermont we sent for a cat. A tiny tiger kitten arrived not long after we made our desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water...
Through night, another day, and far into the next night, the indomitable Father of Victory lived on. With groping motions he made clear, in his lucid moments, that he wished his hands?the famous Tiger claws, cased day and night in kitten-soft grey gloves?to be held by the two men who were perhaps his closest, dearest, most faithful friends, Albert, his valet, Francois, his chauffeur...
...that he has been punished enough. In 1925 a suffraget daughter of Lucy Stone wrote a newspaper letter against the release of Pomeroy. She charged that his crime was worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts...
...Glass Slipper. Kitchen-Wench Irma, nude bather, kitten's wetnurse, joins a brothel when the Mr. Sipos whom she loves and serves marries another. Discovering his wife unfaithful, Mr. Sipos says, "I mayn't have an automobile, but I have honor." He casts off the wife, retrieves Irma...
...pony who most notably helped America beat the Argentine was Hitchcock's Tobiano. A litle piebald horse, striped in white on the haunches and short in the neck, as quick on the ball as a kitten, Tobiano arrived at his skill on the pampas of the Argentine, working with cowherds. Here Lewis Lacey chose the pony for his present master; the American captain played Tobiano for two periods in every game of the 1927 series against England...