Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monkey Suit. In San Jose, Calif., a man sued his wife for divorce on grounds she took her pet monkey to bed with them. Ruling that a man too supine even to kick his wife's monkey out of bed deserved no divorce, Judge Charles Davison granted the decree to the wife instead...
...began drinking absinthe, and the "lower classes," with their vulgar ideas, began to dominate the art world. Says he: "It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicious imbecility." At his pet abomination, WPA art, he snorts: "The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called murals all over the country, especially in schools where the nation's children are brought up on them...
...this gigantic cuckoo clock to sing, experts combed zoos and aviaries. At the home of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, they thought they had found what they wanted: an East Indian bulbul named Greenie, who had been adopted by the bird-loving Osborns as a pet. Greenie was a magnificent singer, with a voice of extraordinary range. But he was so temperamental (he did his best singing in the bathroom while the water was running) that the idea had to be dropped. Engineers compromised on another Osborn pet: a Mexican nightingale (Myadestes unicolor...
...chew cut plug in East Africa. It awed the natives. So did his exploits as a hunter. He kicked a water buffalo in the rump to make it face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt for his rhinoceros whip, jumped to his feet...
Eire's pet phrase: "Britain's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity," seemed about to backfire...