Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least, that was the thought uppermost in my mind last Saturday while sitting in my club, reading TIME. Seeing the magazine and knowing it to be a particular pet of mine, a friend (let us call him Peter Perkins, for short) came over to me and expostulated. He accused you gentlemen, the editors, of "throwing mud at our President." He admitted that it was subtle stuff-mud that did not stain your hands, but which made the President to look foolish...
...drink, although this same idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship and reflection, he has built an edifice of authority within which he sits untroubled by the blood-cravings of the hostile mob without...
...person or any organization that opposes Tacoma's pet ambition is subjected to vilification and misrepresentation...
...adjacent column, says the graduate's emotions are responsible for his tyranny over dear old Alma Mater. This is especially true in athletics. If the football team wins a series of victories, the "old grad" is profuse with congratulations. If it meets defeat, every alumnus has his own pet theory of just why it happened. The coaches are to blame, or the team lacks fight, or the stands didn't give proper support. Whatever his theory, the graduate never falls to tell how much better it was done "in the good old days...
Collier's Weekly, for Nov. 15, carried the record of one Harry L. Reichenbach, publicity hoaxer extraordinary. One read of "T. R. Zaun" and his pet lion, who registered at a Manhattan hotel just before the film Tarzan of the Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions...