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...tree it got stuck in was right in front of Widener, an affront in itself. The mob gathered and got a stepladder, too short, and then a sort of holding folding ladder, long enough. But puss loved life in the leaves and expectorating on Yard Cops, a pleasant occupation withal. It probably felt hurt anyway, the nasty man in Psych said it should be strangled for Bio 2a. Then again, this one didn't seem mad, though it was expectorating...
...This advertising version of an American dogface sprawls comfortably against a clean green jungle background. Not a wisp of whisker mars his healthy smiling puss. There's a press in his pants. And for gosh sakes, his shoes are shined...
...sumptuous black & white, Pola is as vivacious and comely in comedy as she was as a glamor girl. Slapstick permits her to be as violent as ever. When her accompanist in the picture accuses her of "bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap in the puss. When somebody urges her not to become violent over Cinemactor Menjou's alleged infidelities, she cries: "Violent! I'll show you how to be violent"-and launches into an aria from Tannhäuser...
...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
...couple of decades Woollcott made himself a notorious wiseacre occupying a Manhattan apartment ("Wit's End") where he expounded his liberal beliefs, struck extravagant attitudes, greeted friends ("Hello, repulsive"), dismissed bores ("I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss. How about getting the hell out of here...