Word: pet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hearst headlines escapes the insistent satire of Lampy's humorists. From the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the latest novelist they have their pet attainments pricked. Galsworthy, Roche, King, Curwood, Rhinehart, Chambers and Ade--not to mention the artists Flagg, Benda and McCutcheon--all may see themselves as plenty of others see them, on receipt of twenty-five cents by the Lampoon circulation department...
...sentiment of England toward the American troops was only one of whole-souled praise. They overestimated, if anything, the German influence in America and entirely excused our slowness in entering the war on that ground; indeed they were surprised that we got in as well as we did. The pet joke of the Canadians was that they had to kill the Boche to keep the Americans from murdering...
...paragraph 6 we are told that "participation by America in the general European conflict would be a misfortune to humanity." Have we any special claim to being the pet of humanity? Just as good people as we are fighting and they are fighting on the side of humanity. Should we smugly hold ourselves to be too good to fight by their sides? We are not the chosen people of humanity, though if we were would we not be under even greater obligations to defend...
Aside from other objections to this anti-propaganda is exceedingly difficult of practical definition. Perhaps a majority of Harvard professors urge upon their students views of moot questions and pet doctrines well within the dictionary meaning of the term--always indicating to the class, of course, that the matter is in the field of contention. All the speakers mentioned in the list above apparently were considered not propagandists. Neither was Captain Ian Hay Beith, whom the CRIMSON accurately referred to as having "been sent to this country by the British Government to explain Britain's part...
...lone run by passing Berry. Fripp then juggled Parmer's hit long enough to allow Berry to reach third. Parker fanned, but Morse, batting for Spear, knocked a grounder to Nash, who threw Parmer out at second. The "first and third double steal," one of the University's own pet plays, followed and gave Vermont...