Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, as if knowing his words were vain, he seemed to give up argument and to abandon himself to an emotional plea for his pet bill. He spoke of his undeveloped, unappreciated, unknown country...
Last week, goaded to action by newspaper attacks upon this pet plan, the N. E. A. superintendents reiterated their demand for a Department of Education in the very first meeting. They unanimously adopted a resolution directly demanding that Congress pass Senate Bill 291, the Curtis-Reed Bill; and several score of the voters followed Dr. George Drayton Strayer of Columbia University over to where a joint committee of the Senate and the House was holding public hearings on this bill. Dr. Strayer publicly proclaimed that the present Bureau of Education is inadequate and presented the N. E. A. demand...
...best combination of picture and text, to Mrs. Erma Perham Proetz of the Gardner Advertising agency of St. Louis, for a "Pet Milk" ad. The artist was Andrew Loomis of Chicago...
...almost a year Mussolini's physicians have forbidden him his favorite exercise: a daily half-hour ride' on a horse as mettlesome as his pet lioness, Italia Bella...
...Incidentally the name given by the Premier to his pet lioness...