Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to his mother [Prin-cess Helen] and me that Mihai can be very absent-minded about remembering to do as he is told. But what normal child is not? . . . "Some of the American rotogravures, I believe, have printed pictures of my grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even 'Mad Mihai'! I have never called my grandson by any such names." Observers recalled that the "sinister efforts" of partisans of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol to discredit his son, King Mihai, achieved such success, last year, that several...
Frank Nelson Doubleday, potent publisher of magazines and books, pounced on Professor Siegfried's words and found that they were meat for his new pet, Personality.* He wrote to leading U. S. newspaper publishers and asked them what they thought of Professor Siegfried's remarks. The results were printed in the July Personality...
...rumor even got about that President Coolidge had killed Senator Norris's pet bill out of pique because the Senator blocked the President's nomination of a Federal Judge in Alaska...
...brother is, by no means, an unwise investor. The answer is that Miss Morgan probably gave the money she received from Old Gold to charity. Citizens did indeed think of that, but were still mystified. If Miss Morgan had been hard-pressed for another $1,000 for her pet charity, would not Banker Morgan, impeccable, gladly have accommodated her? There was only one other explanation: Miss Morgan was upsetting Morgan tradition by positively getting to like publicity...
...Harlan Miller, pet-loving Second Secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Paris, brought into Manhattan last week from the liner Paris his wife & pets: 40 fantail pigeons, 18 Belgian hares, two Mandingo parrots, a Belgian police dog, and a Black Forest (German)) cuckoo...