Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer who tried to heat his bath water by building a fire under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground. In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake's eyes...
...sold hats with everything on them from dish mops to jewels at a minimum price of $37.75, and an alltime high of $1,000 (complete with an emerald and ruby brooch). Last week, suave, dark-eyed Ben wowed the ladies again with a fashion show for Chicago's pet society charity, St. Luke's Hospital. In the solemn spirit of wartime rationing, every Bes-Ben hat was made of kitchen utensils...
Amateur telescope-makers are so notoriously single-track that their wives call themselves "glass widows." One wife, out of pique, once locked her husband in his cellar workshop; another sued for divorce and won. Editor Albert Ingalls last week proudly called off some of his pet names: D. T. Broadhead (alias "Jim Fogarty") of Wellsville, N.Y.; William Buchel (alias "Robert Gray") of Toledo; Paul Linde (alias "Pavel Uvaroff") and Fred Person (alias "Alex MacTavish") of Biloxi, Miss. Said Ingalls solemnly: "A good roof-prism maker is the equal in military value of a whole company of soldiers...
...nine months ago Gibbs was drafted by WPB to head up the country's cargo shipbuilding program. Dour Designer Gibbs unwillingly went to Washington. There he ran head-on into the Maritime Commission which, with an eye on a postwar merchant marine (TIME, Aug. 23), had its own pet shipbuilding program'. Standardizer Gibbs hurled himself into battle. When he left Washington: ^ Merchant-ship types had been reduced from six to three, of which one is expected to be discontinued...
...eventually took most of the class to dismiss the dog, and rumor has it that the Professor in question went directly home and shot his wife's pet poodle, but your correspondent wouldn't place much stock in that scuttlebutt . . . you know how these rumors grow...