Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud heeling at my side and prancing like a high-spirited horse. Yesterday was her final test in defense and attack. She thought the "agitator" wanted to play and failed miserably-breaking my heart. She was rejected. The Colonel's wife took her for a pet...
Every reviewer has his pet theories which he will defend against all comers to the bitter and unreasonable end, especially if they are lost causes. Haggin, for instance, in his zeal for the cause of Toscanini, wrote recently in the "Nation" that he found Koussevitsky's Beethoven and Brahms "impossible to listen to." For the most part, he is a very acute critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack...
With a dwindling supply of civilian goods and with some war workers already so well off they go A.W.O.L. in droves (see col. 2), nobody last week knew the real answer. But Wall Street brokers at least had a pet theory-citizens will buy common stocks. For this blithe prediction they had four hard & fast reasons: 1) there is no shortage of common stocks, 2) stocks are cheap, 3) stocks are a traditional inflation hedge, yield three or four times as much as good bonds to boot, 4) corporation taxes are likely to be boosted less than taxes on individuals...
...causes of absenteeism thus seem to call in question many a pet theory of liberal and labor leader. Big wages, big overtime, rigid price control to protect the workers' living standards, big unions-simply have not resulted in labor's buckling down to its job. What will do so? There is no easy answer. It is not going to be easy for labor to accept the fact that in one way or another real wages are going to be cut, yet that greater production must go on. Nor is it going to be easy to re-establish discipline...
Jack Barnaby was a happy man this Christmas with good reason. His pet project, the Varsity Squash Racquets Team, had just taken over the finals of the Invitation Intercollegiate Squash Tournament. Run by the University Club in New York, the tournament has in the past been an excellent crystal ball for gazing into coming intercollegiate competitions...