Word: pets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Achilles is a Cornell pig, neurotic pet of that university's Prof. Howard Scott Liddell. Prof. Liddell taught Achilles to get an apple by lifting the lid of a box with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes...
...after the bars were let down at the Bar Association, the names of six women, lawyers were posted on the bulletin board at No. 42 West 44th Street to be voted en. One was Lawyer Susan Brandeis (Mrs. Jacob H. Gilbert), whose pet dislike is to be referred to as the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis because she does not want to trade on her father's fame. Plump, fortyish. the mother of two boys and a girl, Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the New York State Board of Regents (educational overseers) and maintains...
...enough to feel individually responsible, would offer smaller chance for buck-passing and lobbying than the old Senate & House. Too wise last week to be disillusioned so soon, he had reason to be disappointed. Last January he asked only one favor of the new Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That has led to a widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators...
...Manuel Osorio de Zuniga by Goya, shows the little grandee with a gay sash round his waist, leading his pet magpie with a string tied to its leg while two big-eyed cats gaze hungrily from a corner...
...Bucharest, Rumania, Mme Romano returned from a trip abroad to find that her pet monkey ("intrinsic value": $112), which she had left in care of Mme Sanatescu, refused to abandon its new home. When Mme Sanatescu insisted that the monkey's wish to remain with her be respected, Mme Romano sued for alienation of affections...