Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lying abed last week in the Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan, his scalp badly lacerated from a Florida train wreck early in the month. His physicians could not keep him quiet at home; ordered him to the hospital; permitted him to use the telephone. He learned that some of his pet stocks-among them Baldwin Locomotive, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, and Independent Oil & Gas were being gnawed at on the Stock Exchange. To W. W. Murphy, his secretary, he quietly talked; ordered large buying orders in those securities. Their board quotations climbed at once, and next day's newspapers...
...attendants manipulated her throat muscles until she was able to utter intentional, intelligible sounds. Playfully, they used the same methods to make one of her pet dogs, a Great Dane, "speak" the word "mama" in asking for tidbits...
...quoted as believing Yurovski suddenly resolved to assassinate the Imperial family when he discovered that Nicholas was communicating with loyal friends by means of such notes concealed in the hollow cork of a milk bottle. According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
Your issue of Dec. 7 savors of an ordinary newspaper and not of my pet periodical. Why serve us original readers with bilge water when we like the Vichy. I generally read TIME word by word including ads from cover to cover. This one didn't read nearly so well and I skipped...
Since the announcement of its Fall production by the Harvard Dramatic Club much has been written about Evreinov and the monodrama. This is as it should be for the name of Evreinov naturally is very closely associated with his pet theory. Yet in this particular instance it is well to clear up some possible misconception. While Evreinov is, of course, the champion of the monodrama it doesn't necessarily follow that he employs only that particular form as a means of expression. He is too good a showman not to know that the drama cannot be reduced to a strict...