Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Johnson, while pulling the ears of pet beagies...
...permitted a would-be blackmailer to make this work public rather than pay hush money. Gladstone's political career-he was then Chancellor of the Exchequer and righteous apostle of the balanced budget -was unharmed because Victorian society preferred to regard his evening excursions as an eccentric pet charity...
...just a "publicity hound," grumbled Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. following the latest trouble with his pet Great Dane, C5. Three years ago the dog (which was named after the armed forces plane because he "grew like a military contract") chomped on the hand of Missouri Democrat James Symington. After an exile in his Indiana doghouse, C-5 finally returned to Washington, and last week Jacobs threw a welcoming party. Symington himself came by and, to show his good will, offered the dog some cheese. To show his good taste, C-5 bit Symington on the hand again. Said...
...whether guards conducting a search had looked up the rectum of a lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps. Few attorneys dared to pipe back publicly. So for twelve years Judge Cannon presided as a choice gossip topic...
...remember that the eponymous poet, F.X. Enderby, was a fairly unprepossessing fellow. But due to a surfeit of British cooking and intractable intestines, he frequently emitted noxious sounds from both ends. He lived, moreover, in animal squalor, reclusively scribbling in the bathroom and tossing sections of his poem The Pet Beast into his otherwise unused bathtub...