Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...
...late John Barrymore's pet dachshund, Gus, ran in front of a car in Hollywood and was killed. Explained the late Great Profile's friend, Painter John Decker, the dachshund's stepmaster: for the first time in years a certain part in an operatic revival had gone to another dog, and Gus, a born ham, had taken the only alternative...
...called Who's In Charge Here? (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), and its first printing of 28,500 was already sold out last week. The work includes no supernaturally levitated figures, but in one drawing an echelon of six flying fish completes a bank-turn above their tank in a pet store. The proprietor explains to a customer: "We don't sell them singly, Madam. It breaks up the formation...
Spawning Inventions. All of the Coopers and Hewitts were inventors. They spawned ideas like salmon. Each had his pet idea, like a spoiled child, which he labored over more & more as it failed to work out, and which he grew more & more fond of as the other successful ideas raced on to practical accomplishment while the failure stayed in the laboratory. Old Peter Cooper's pet was a continuous chain drive for boats. He planned an endless chain, run by water power, along the Erie Canal. He got Governor Clinton's approval, and set up an experimental unit...
Last week James Lincoln backed his pet economic theory with a smacking $3,000,000 annual bonus that will give every Lincoln employe, on the average, about as much as he has already drawn for the year (average per worker: $2,250). This will also add up to $50,000 on the paychecks of a few key men. In so doing, James Lincoln told both the Navy and the Treasury to go to hell, in those exact one-syllable words...