Word: tomcats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically unknown in the U. S. Egg-bald Laholm, 40, an ex-boxer and heavyweight title holder in the U. S. Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped upon Hunding's dining-room table like a tomcat after a mouse. His singing, less athletic than his jumps, was fresh and youthful, with less of the buzz saw than most run-of-the-mill German-style tenoring. His semaphoric acting bore witness to his Navy training...
...enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with the seat of his pants out." On President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley on a dark night." On AAA: "I was number eight in a brood of ten. Under this New Deal ... I never would have arrived at all. Or, had I been fortunate enough to have seen daylight . . . little Henry Wallace...
...original cat that inhabited the old Toronto Stock Exchange was a tabby named Scrammy. From 1929 to 1934 she kittened twice, presaging two mining stock booms. Scrammy disappeared and was replaced a year ago by a tomcat named Mick, who so far has manifested no oracular qualities...
...South Portland, Me. last week Veterinarian John Francis Ford told what happened when he transplanted a tomcat's sex glands to a rheumatic 14-year-old shepherd dog. "In two weeks," said Dr. Ford, "the rejuvenation took effect. The dog went wild. He was full of pep. He was all over the place. I never saw anything like it. He wagged his tail so hard that he knocked three loose rungs out of my front stairs banister. Twice I locked him in a cage outdoors. Both times he broke loose. Then I tied him. He chewed himself free...
Last October in Amsterdam's Hotel Carlton, careful hands hoisted a huge white tomcat onto a small table set on a dais. Cautiously the beast sniffed at a checkered board, turned away disinterested. Soon afterward two bespectacled, scholarly-looking gentlemen sat down at the same table, studied the board for five hours, occasionally moved a figure...