Word: kittenish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...
Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine...
...sunny morning last week, Hilda, an 8-year-old, 3,000-lb. Indian elephant in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Zoo, woke up feeling kittenish. Sniffing the fragrant scent wafted over from the Botanical Gardens, she strolled up & down the edge of the concrete moat which separates animals from sightseers, squealed coquettishly to her 4,500-lb. mate, Bill, to come out and join her. But Bill had got out of bed with the wrong foot; when he came out. pointedly ignored her. Vexed, Hilda gave a loud, long trumpet. Suddenly Bill lowered his head, charged, hit Hilda broadside, knocked...
...Dodsworth" gives us Sinclair Lewis's most human story expertly dramatized by a first-rate cast. Sam Dodsworth, an American business man but not a Babbitt, marries a wife younger than himself who cannot accept middle age gracefully. Palled with her one kittenish escapade after another, Sam finally refuses to save Fran from her latest scrape, and leaves the attractive would-be girl...
When he covered the World War front before America's entrance and said "This is not our war!" was he the self-conscious heretic, the kittenish reformer, that many of his Harvard friends and journalistic associates had been? The point had better not be mulled over. Let Mr. Hicks fight it out with the American Legion, let Earl Browder cross swords with the defenders of the late Woodrow Wilson. So far as we know, a really great leader of the Proletariat has get to be a Proletarian, Communist Party or no Communist Party, but one's appetite for the adventurous...