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...settlers were reminded of Paul Bunyan's "minktums" and "tigermonks." Natural scientists suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long...
...gentleman, Dermot McDermot (Walter Abel) and a neighboring country gentleman's daughter, Connaught O'Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race horse after good old Bart had won the big steeplechase. The race is a childish, ridiculous, clumsy scene, wherein one horse, galloping a mile a minute on a treadmill, was easily outstripped by the gingerly lope of another animal who had only to thread his way across a stationary...
Phonographs toured the U.S., a great fad. But Mr. Edison's early improvements failed to make them commercially practicable. He dropped phonography for ten years, returning to it as his pet about 1890. He was convinced that its future was to assist stenography...
...left Brooklyn, my birthplace, for Germany at the age of one. I have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings...
...artists the acquisition of a curious lithograph entitled "The Comedy of Death" by the eccentric Rudolphe Bresdin, a French draughtsman, is of interest. Bresdin, a bohemian of bohemians, has been pictured by Champlioury as living like and Indian savage in Montmartre, alternately starving and sharing new carrots with his pet rabbic, Petiot. His work reflects his own bizarre personality and is vividly imaginative, yet drawn with microscopic detail...