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...Francis (the "talking" mule). There were minor disturbances-Smoky was frightened and frisky; Diamond was nervous enough to misbehave onstage-but, all in all, the evening was a success. Moreover, it was a true sign of a new Hollywood trend: movies starring animals are really making money, hoof over paw...
...gave her a raise in salary? Or was it, rather, that under Willy's brutal, profiteering tutelage young Colette learned how to write? Explained Colette years later: "Perhaps even a mouse finds time, between one wound and the next, to appreciate the softness of the cat's paw...
...lzer seems admirably at home when he is pouring his talent into lurid fantasy and characterization. The disappointment comes when Mittelhölzer tries to be a Plato as well as a Rabelais. As a literary mixture, ethical utopianism and Tobacco Road are just about as obscure as the paw prints in Mabel's freckle pattern...
Love is a kitten, a pleasant thing, a purr and a pounce. Chases a piece of string, a scratch and a mew a ball batted with a paw a sheathed claw...
...Africa, who had read the Spectator contest and identified himself as the man who had spoken the sentence in the King David bar. His story: while he was stationed in an army camp near Nairobi, soldiers had made pets of two lion cubs. "One of the brutes cut his paw on a piece of rusty metal," wrote Braithwaite. "This did not, naturally, improve his temper, and he nearly mauled the camp chaplain. After that he (the lion, not the chaplain) had to be destroyed . . . His paw was still sore, and still wrapped in bandages . . . when I killed...