Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncle Jimbilly was Nannie's husband and Grandmother's odd-job man. He liked to carve miniature tombstones in wood, but he got angry when asked to inscribe "Safe in Heaven" over the tomb of the children's pet jackrabbit. Children goggled and thrilled when Uncle Jimbilly casually remarked that he would cut off their ears, skin them alive and nail their skins to the barn door...
...Pekinese, named Yummie, Fuzz Wuzz, Cuddles, Baby Dear, Honey Child, etc. She also had a Brussels griffon, a black Persian cat and a dachshund named Poopchin. When Mrs. Shaw died last month, her will asked an old friend, Mrs. Ita Mae McGuire of Napanee, Ont., to adopt her 26-pet menagerie, left her a trust fund of $100,000 for their comfort...
...police can't watch over you always. So, until we meet, Death." The Hearst Herald-American had directed fire at the universities by calling Chicago a city where "rich universities ... get pound dogs for nothing (at the rate of 10,000 a year), while a youngster seeking a pet must shell out $8.40." After about a week of this, the City Council called a public hearing on a measure to forbid giving more dogs to laboratories...
...performing dog named Teddy had gone through his act, the Council ended the hearing by referring the question of pound-dog disposal to a committee. At week's end, the Council decided to continue letting hospitals and universities have unclaimed dogs, but reduced the cost of recovering a pet from the pound to $3. Vote...
Plans. Nahas Pasha reportedly had his own pet plan-a large, loose coalition embracing, under Egypt's leadership, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, the Yemen...