Word: petted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Holding in the line," always the most besetting of foot-ball sins and the most prolific cause of slugging in the past, has been kept in wonderful check this year, if any comparison be made with former years; but it may still be called a pet sin, and some of the points scored on the Polo Grounds this year were certainly accomplished through its agency. But fortunately the result of none of the games was apparently affected thereby...
...which close the American schoolboy's career, but his dissipations are of a very different sort. During the last two years of his gymnasium course, he finds it necessary to have miniature "commerce" or drinking bouts. The boy who downs the greatest number of glasses of beer becomes the pet of the class much in the same way that in America the best foot-ball player becomes the hero of his schoolmates...
Miss Batchelder, the loyal actress who persisted in wearing the Harvard college colors above those of Columbia, although students of the latter institution had control of the theatre, has an extensive acquaintance with the Harvard boys and they regard her as a sort of pet...
...boat, where parallel bars, etc., have been erected. The men exercise there during the evening, often having interesting sparring and wrestling matches for their amusement. As we bade our courteous guide farewell on the upper deck, we noticed the purser with a green parrot - the ship's pet - seated on his wrist and swearing volubly, - the last words we heard upon the "Wabash." We descended into the scow, which was waiting, the windlass turned, and we were once more on dry shore and heading towards Cambridge...
...grammar," "very bad taste," "atrocious English," utter lack of sense and want of connection." Remarks: "It is hard to conceive of a mind capable of producing such a villainous piece of work. The man that wrote it was evidently drunk." Mr. Crewman who reads this delicate censure upon his pet ideas, starts off with blood in his eyes and an Indian club to interview Freshworthy, while Freshworthy with his double-barreled shot-gun is looking up another man. Three-fourths of the section are seeking gore, and the instructor has fled for parts unknown. It is feared that...