Word: saturnalian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan show of the Empire Cat Club, the Siamese Cat Society of America, and the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...