Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia the pet bull pup of one Vincent Reil choked on a sharp bone. He was dying when Mr. Reil carried him to the small animal clinic of the Philadelphia...
...Samuel Gompers, widow of the late president of the American Federation of Labor: "I was fined $2 last week in Manhattan for failure to muzzle my dog, even though I insisted that nature had neglected to provide my pet with a suitably sized nose...
...only uncrowded but actually undermanned. The 14 veterinary colleges in the U. S. and Canada turned out only 132 graduates last year. The Bureau of Animal Industry needs about that number of new men annually. Veterinaries are no longer "horse" but "cow-doctors." Aside from the growing pet industry and the need of veterinaries to help pet owners comply with inoculation ordinances, the growing population needs more and more men to keep milk wholesome, beef untainted, pork pure...
...Majesty Alexander I, King of the Slavs, Croats and Slovenes, "Jugoslavs," or "Southern Slavs," this news of a naked man was worse than scandalous. It meant trouble for King Alexander in furthering his pet scheme to create a Royalist dictature with himself as Dictator. This scheme has matured so rapidly of late that even the Croatian Opposition leader, fiery Stefan Raditch, has been won over to support His Majesty. But the revelation of last week was most unsettling, cast a black stigma on the Royalist cause. A lady-in-waiting revealed that the King said bitterly to Queen Marie (daughter...
...despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly accordant with the available documentary evidence, but shall none the less bear...