Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen's pet scheme for abridging this difficulty is a World Court Conference called by the League of Nations (TIME, April 12, THE LEAGUE) ; but to which the U. S. has refused to send a delegate to "explain" the Senate's reservations (TIME, May 3, THE LEAGUE...
...undergraduates were aware that their pet professor strummed a bit now and then. A few of the faculty recalled that music had been Erskine's love before English-teaching; that he had studied and composed under famed Edward Alexander MacDowell. But John Erskine is 46; that was long ago. Astonishment was general, therefore, when Professor Erskine appeared, quite professionally late for his first large audience in years, settled delicately into position and let flow from his fingers a performance quite as smooth and sophisticated as the conversation he had let fall from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary...
...After what eminent Stoic are pet storks commonly named...
...only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are commonly named "Cato," after the eminent Stoic...
John E. Andrus of Yonkers, millionaire straphanger and graduate of Wesleyan University in the class of 1862, has been able to gain a hearing, and who can't these days, for his pet query. "Where are the openings for all the college graduates...