Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plated Decks. In Cleveland, the Rocky River Museum announced it would rename Oscar, its pet turtle, who had laid...
...staff general had seen it with his own eyes: an MP outfit in Brittany had trained its pet hare and a mongrel dog to chase each other. Dutifully making his report, the staff general reported the phenomenon to his commander. Blimped his boss...
Buster. In Brookline, Mass., the late Lawyer Woodbury Rand left $40,000 to his pet alley-cat Buster. To his housekeeper he left Buster's comb, brush, harness and an extra $40,000 to provide for the cat's additional comfort. To nine outraged relatives he left nothing. Reason: ". . . their contemptuous attitude and cruelty...
...story centers around 9-year-old Stinky and his pet dancing caterpillar, Curley. Jerry Flynn, a washed-up producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy...
Basil O'Connor, solid, slick-haired onetime law partner of President Roosevelt, head of his pet philanthropy, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was appointed by the President to a new $12,000-a-year post: Chairman of the American Red Cross, succeeding the late Norman Hezekiah Davis...