Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mike, Farewell! We all regret you, Although you would not let us pet you; Of cats, the wisest oldest best cat, This be your motto,-Requiescat...
Heartfelt, this elegy appeared last week from the pen of Assistant Keeper Hiley of the Department of Printed Books of the august British Museum. It was written in memory of ancient and honorable Cat Mike, whose small tombstone, near the Great Russell Street entrance to the Museum, bears this lapidary inscription: "He assisted in keeping the main gate of the British Museum from February 1909 to January...
...church is called Central Church; why, I don't know. As to its architecture-well, two Irishmen were passing by recently and Pat was heard to say to Mike, 'You say that is a church? It looks to the like of me more like a gas-house.' Well, Pat was more right than he knew...
...Burlington, Wis., six weeks ago, a large female rat crawled into the back seat of a car belonging to one Mike Scaffano. There she built her nest and gave birth to a litter of small rats. Last week Mike Scaffano drove his car into the middle of Burlington; perturbed, the rat crawled into the front seat, and up the trouser leg of Mike Scaffano. Dismayed, frightened, severely bitten, Mike Scaffano drove his car into a telegraph pole...
Radio seethed at Post 20, boiled its way up 22½ points to close at 297½. Short, stubby, Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, Radio specialist, rumpled his red hair, blinked behind his glasses. Far away in Chicago, Arthur W. Cutten, bull operator in a dozen stocks, declared Montgomery Ward will reach 1,000. Grey-haired Gen. Oliver B. Bridgman stood at Post 2, noted U. S. Steel transactions in his book. They totaled 160,000 shares...