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Despite its gallop, the case is excellent. Audrey Hepburn justifies her notices, playing Gigi with a vibrant warmth. With remarkable beauty and a purr in her voice, she is completely captivating as a spirited hoyden or a demure young lady...
Summed up pipe-smoking Poetess Micheloud: "One gets the impression of being at a medical congress ... To speak of poetry as one would speak of the causes and effects of illness is to reduce it to the monotonous purr of humanity and kill it." Perhaps the best evidence of what seems to be ailing 20th century poetry was furnished by a delegate from The Netherlands who quoted a fellow poet and countryman, Koos Schuur...
Marilyn Monroe's purr "I had the radio on" when she posed for her now historic nude calendar picture was after a historic precedent. When Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese and sister of Napoleon, was chided for having posed in the nude for Canova's famous statue of her as Venus Victrix, she calmly stated: "I wasn't cold with a fire in the room...
Michael C. Kopliner, Head Proctor, has been with the University for over 20 years, and with six assistants, he tames the Tigers living in the twenty-odd dormitories, and keeps the disturbance down to a mere purr. Besides being the eyes and ears of the dean's office, he also serves as a licensing agent, the lost and found, and the mediator between the University and the town police...
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...