Word: manx
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a mile a minute when his car scraped a Manxman's sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." The charge was manslaughter...
After deliberating an hour and a half, the jury found Sportsman Don guilty. Don was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in a Manx jail...
More cats than a critic could shake a pencil at were assembled in the rooms of New York's Maurel Gallery last week in one of the most amusing exhibitions of the season. Persian. Manx, Maltese, Siamese, Angora, tortoise-shell and tabby were all there in wood, pottery, glass, ivory, lead, bronze, marble, in oils, etchings, lithographs, water colors. Enthusiastic cat collectors and neighboring art galleries had loaned over 700 different representations of cats which, according to the Maurel Gallery's foreword, are one of the "eternal themes...
...Siamese, Manx and other pedigreed cats shared prizes all week. Last prize, for the best house cat, went to Nyger. black alley cat whose owner. Miss Doris Bondy, picked it up in a butter & egg store...
...accidents marred the exhibition. A Manx cat whose owner was watching the mice broke away, snarled once at the mice, then dashed off in the opposite direction, startling a turtle, annoying a tiger cub, distracting the attention of an elderly man watching the goldfish. A pelican, taken from its cage to pose for a news-camera, wandered over to the fish exhibition and was diving for one of the lion-headed goldfish when interrupted by a goldfish gillie. One of Exhibitor Donald S. Crowe's bear cubs became ill from an ice cream cone, recovered. A stray...