Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much to Japan because extremists were afraid of him. Powerfully representing ancient as well as modernized Japan, his influence kept in check such passionate young revolutionaries as Colonel Hashimoto. He was a lover of ceremonial silks, of austere rituals of tea and wine. He had a nightingale for a pet and he tended pots of orchids with his own hands. He woke each day to contemplate an ancient plum tree silhouetted against the white paper shoji-screen. of his bedroom. He represented also the West: constitution-maker, reader of French philosophy, always abreast of international inventions such as Naziism...
Doan James M. Landis' pet baby, Plan E and proportional representation for Cambridge, is apparently in for more trouble despite the 7,500 vote majority given it in an election referendum. Yesterday Assistant City Solicitor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo, acting as a private attorney, filed a petition asking the Supreme Judicial Court to declare that form of government unconstitutional...
...flashes by reclining on a Los Angeles curbstone in a pouring rain, was rushed to headquarters by suspicious police. Famed paleontologists like Barnum Brown of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and Chester Stock of California Institute of Technology were called in for advice. A herd of pet iguanas and a baby alligator wriggled over the Burbank lot, while animators studied their lizardy movements. By the time a complete cast had been rounded up for the Rite, the Disney zoo contained eusthenopterons, brachiosaurs, brontosaurs, plesiosaurs, mesosaurs, diplodocuses, triceratopses, pterodactyls, trachodons, struthiomimuses, stegosaurs, archaeopteryxes, pteranodons, tyrannosaurs and enough plain...
...Horse Show. The pony never went back to Ireland. Arthur Tolman. a New England horse fancier, took a fierce fancy to him, persuaded Captain Corry to sell him for $1,200. Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert Guggenheim, Boston Clothier William J. Kennedy. Schoolboy Francis Cravath Gibbs (13-year-old grandson of the late Lawyer Paul Cravath), who paid...
...boss's pet from the start. Boyer blossomed in the F. T. S. He took to such brain-crackers as how to manufacture synthetic wool from soybeans, a type of problem that made experts stare blankly but were longtime reveries of Motor-maker Ford. In the summer of 1930 Ford built him a three-story frame laboratory behind the Museum in Greenfield Village...