Word: ocelots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bristling, gibbering, jittering, wagging, scampering, squeaking, howling, yowling, meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby...
Although most of the furriers' dealings, judged by bulk, seem to have been in cat fur, the pelts of other animals also came upon the block, including black bear, grizzly bear, polar bear, ocelot, wolf, Canadian baum marten, Japanese marten, cross fox, fisher, flying squirrel, Chinese weasel, pahmi and Gold Coast monkey...