Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complex for one Mexican in 1,000 to grasp. Basically it aims to displace the present ill-coordinated State labor laws with a sweeping Federal system of drastic potency. Passage of the necessary Constitutional amendment last week gives the President a free hand to railroad enactment of his pet Labor Code through Congress...
Observers investigated, found the reason for the snake-less Times. Great publishers often have pet aversions. Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's aversion is birth control, Publisher George Horace Lorimer's are publicity and social functions. Publisher William Randolph Hearst's is England. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's are people who will not give him his own way. And a pet aversion of Publisher George Baker Longan of the Kansas City Times is wriggly, writhy, slithery snakes. An unflinching rule keeps snakes entirely out of the Times' pages- out of the news, features, fiction, comics. Other Times...
...Smarting under the lambasting given his pet legislation. Chairman Reed Smoot came to the Tariff Bill's defense: "I want to put the American people on guard against a deliberate campaign of misrepresentation. . . . Criticism is inspired by propagandists of selfish groups. . . . We are joined in the intention to write the best tariff bill ever enacted...
...were my forebears for some 300 years and "Kijkuit" means "Lookout" if you use it as a noun. The sharp warning: "Look out!" in Dutch would be: "Kijk uit!" At Dutch railroad crossings we see the signs "Uitkujken!" "Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope and, if the Dutch had speakeasies (which they haven...
...Another agitator: Edward William Bok, Philadelphia publicist, whose son William Curtis testified last winter before the House tariff-makers. Last week the Curtis Institute of Music, pet project of Mrs. Bok, announced a course in campanology (carillon-playing) under Anton Brees, carillonneur of the Bok carillon at Mountain Lake...