Word: tomcat
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When Sheik, the Haiti's white tomcat, saw the dove, it made him feel like a tomcat. He was not hungry, but only the tip of his tail was moving when he flattened himself for a precisely accurate spring. Knocking the feathers out of his whiskers, glancing around, he lifted the warm kill in his mouth. Its pretty head dragged stupidly as he picked his way to a cubby hole and hid it. Sheik licked a paw neat, stretched himself, stalked...
...London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand." Recently Death pounced upon the great black tomcat which has dozed of a morning these many years atop the bar. Bleary bibbers were inconsolable. Mournfully they protested that without the tomcat Finch's would not be Finch...
...Battle Creek, Mich., the large Angora tomcat of a Mrs. F. C. Philo eyed a man who entered the Philo home as a metre-reader, saw the man seize Mrs. Philo and bear her to the floor, leaped upon the intruder, bit, clawed, screeched, spat, drove him from the house...
Many who read of Il Benito's demands for "satisfaction" from Austria (see above) sneeringly remarked that he had chosen to bully a weak nation, which could no more refuse him anything that he should ask than a mouse can refuse to "satisfy" a tomcat...
Died. Brian G. Hughes, bank president and practical joker, in Monroe, N. Y. Once he entered a ten cent tomcat in a national show, won a blue ribbon...