Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lest President Coolidge's statement be made to seem a pet of political temperament, Impresario Butler closed his lips tight, pocketed his incompleted jottings, left the Northwest. But before going to Canada for a vacation, he did say that Calvin Coolidge was not to be thought of as definitely unavailable for the Prosperities of 1928. During Mr. Butler's vacation, President Coolidge repeatedly if silently insisted on his unavailability, finishing up last week with the almost crabbed words: "It is final." Mr. Butler, heading for Washington last week, obviously had a lot of new plans to make...
...turn" the fish; then she looked at her soup tureen. She stared at her soup tureen; over the edge of it was hanging a grey, silky brush. When Mrs. Stein pulled this brush, she found that it was attached to an animal. From her soup she extracted the pet weasel of her son. Later the son reported that the weasel had been seen spinning in dizzy, hungry fashion about the jug of spicy, beautiful soup...
Soon Mr. Broun wired the news paper that he was "on strike" and ceased writing on any topic. Mr. Broun contended that "If I do not thumb my nose at the World's pet projects,"* he should be allowed freedom in his column. The World said No; said that in the reader's mind whatever he finds in a newspaper he credits to that Coolidge newspaper. says in "Did the you see World...
...Establishment of municipal airports ports in large U. S. cities was advocated by the President. Long enthusiastic about the development of aviation, the President's vacation has made him even more interested in the plane's future. He has seen the efficiency of the air mail. The pet collie dog recently (TIME, Aug. 1) presented to him made the trip from Detroit by airplane. There is a plane at Custer State Park, S. Dak., ready to rush the President to Washington in any emergency. So, remote from centres of population, the President has more than ever realized the airplane...
...went shears in the hands of John Mays, White House valet, "snip, snip, snip!" The President was having his hair cut. Not unduly selfconscious, the President had the operation performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze at the sight." ¶ Prudence Prim, pet white collie of Mrs. Coolidge, died at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Cause: Distemper with complications. ¶Inasmuch as President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers...