Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer, the guy who lifts the film out of the Class D league, isn't even mentioned on the program. Much funnier than comic Jack Haley and apparently far more intelligent than the rest of the cast, the pet monkey really stars. With his ability to steal pancakes only equalled by his talent in throwing apples, the half-pint ape has no trouble in making a monkey out of Haley...
Aspiring Plug Shrinkers were asked to write to 522 Fifth Avenue, New York City, name the sponsor of their pet retch, and check off what was wrong with his commercial: i.e. was it in bad taste, hokum, tiresome, repulsive, anatomical, silly, syrupy, or what...
Under two of Franklin Roosevelt's pet agencies-the Budget Bureau and National Resources Planning Board-Congress lit a slow fire. A Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, headed by Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, reported that the agencies were rife with "ideologies and theories looking forward to greater Governmental expenditures and greater deficits during the post-war period." Said the subcommittee: "Such controversial matters (better termed 'propaganda') should not be sponsored at public expense...
...Dogs. From such reports seeping out of Europe, it was plain that Germany was planning to eat this winter, whether or not the rest of Europe starved. Not so plain, however, was the order that all pet dogs in The Netherlands, if they are 18 inches or more in height, must be turned over to German occupying authorities. No doubt it also had something to do with the master-race theory...
Hers was a full childhood. Beryl used to rip out the quivering stomachs of freshly slain reedbuck to feed her dogs. She was once (as a Sikh phrased it to her father) "moderately eaten" by a lion. Attacked by her father's pet baboon, she beat it to death with her knobkerrie...