Word: paws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canary (Paramount). This old chiller-diller, which has as many lives as a cat, haunted Broadway for a long run, has twice before been made into a movie. Paramount has brushed off some of the cobwebs, draped some bigger, stickier ones for harassed Heroine Paulette Goddard to paw through in the secret passageways, added some new wisecracks...
...extremely important for the welfare of the American people that public opinion be formed in the light of past experience rather than in an atmosphere of excitement and sentimental and educational appeals. Don't let our vast wealth and the lives of our young men be the cat's paw of European diplomatic greed and animosities. Many a mother's son closed his eyes in agony, consoled only by the thought that he gave his young life in "the War to end Wars." Thomas Dorgan
...supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy paw. For a week before last week's fight he smoked a dozen big black cheroots a day, drank two or three beers after workouts, did road work nights until his wife came down from Orange and saw to it that he got some sober rest...
...hero worship went on, slowly, almost imperceptibly, Lindbergh began to freeze up. People wanted to paw him and he did not like to be pawed. Women wanted to kiss him and he angrily pulled away. Because he kept a distance, the public became more hysterical. In St. Louis, after he had left an outdoor table where he had eaten-as heartily as usual-with fellow officers of his old squadron, he finally saw what he was up against: women broke through the lines and fought for the still damp corncobs which he had chewed clean and left in a small...
...weeks later Lindbergh was in Mexico, received with Latin enthusiasm by people who cheered him but did not want to paw him. At the U. S. Embassy, far from the maddened mob, he met earnest, poetic, adventurous Anne Morrow. With earnest, adventurous (but not poetic) Charles Lindbergh she had much in common. After their wedding at Englewood his war with the press grew more bitter. Newshawks and cameramen hounded them on their honeymoon. A few weeks later in a mass interview, a reporter asked Lindbergh whether his wife was pregnant yet. He whitened with anger...