Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, the tall Persian cat of one Mrs. Anna Kiekhoffer chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...
...rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water while the crew worked in life belts. Even when the return journey was possible, she sailed painfully at not more than ten miles an hour over the rough sea. When the airship got home, looking like an uncomfortable inflated toy pig, a perfect landing and housing were made. The wild journey was another evidence of the wonderful airworthy qualities of these apparently fragile giants...
...uncomfortable inflated toy...
Born. To John F. A. Cecil and Mrs. Cecil (Cornelia Vanderbilt), a son, George Henry Vanderbilt (eight and one-half pounds); in Asheville, N. C. Children of tenants of Biltmore House (Mrs. Cecil's estate) gathered in English fashion to greet the hear, presented him with a toy stork, a woolly...
...amended by substituting 4) the Jones plan for the Underwood plan. Second, it was amended by substituting 2) the Norris plan for the Jones plan. Third, it was amended by substituting 3) the Underwood plan for the Norris plan. Then an attempt was made again to amend the bill toy substituting 4) the Jones plan for the Underwood plan. This last attempt failed. Finally, the bill (composed of 3)-the Underwood plan-was passed by vote...