Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, the market is boiling. Prices of used uprights have doubled to $235, stocks of the popular new spinets (small uprights) have dwindled to the point where some stores are rationing them, selling only one a month. Dealers are scouring attics and haunting auctions to pick up stray instruments, are selling them by carloads, sight unseen, to Western and Southern buyers...
Newton Booth Tarldngton, 73-year-old, nearly blind novelist, was worried about Indianapolis' stray dogs. In the good old days before gas rationing many a motorist stopped at the pound on the city's outskirts, for $4 rescued a pup from homelessness or death. Now there were few such rescuers. To the Indianapolis City Council, about to debate opening a dog shop in the center of town, Novelist Tarkington wrote a letter: ". . . Out of the myriads of creatures upon the earth only one, the dog . . . crossed the vast abyss that separates the species ... I find few things...
...French and the Portuguese guerrillas. He could be shocked (as the reader will be) by the cruelty of his guerrilla comrades toward prisoners and the wounded, but the sight and the infliction of death never so much as put a pleat in his brain. The hungry French gratefully killed stray dogs, and roasted rats; Dodd as gratefully subsisted on raw horse liver and roast mule...
Comfortably curled up on Mickey's couch, contentedly licking herself, lay a beautiful black cat and five kittens to whom she had just given birth. Dismayed at finding this abandoned, fatherless family in his abode, Rooney at once suspected Franco W. Peabody, 3rd '46, notorious for picking up stray cats, and accused him of the blackguardly deed...
Although he has been greeted only by batterymen and a few stray others who have dropped down to Briggs Cage to limber up, Varsity baseball Coach Floyd Stahl has begun the task of shaping up a nine for the approaching season...