Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictured herself as "an author of brilliant subtlety,"until she found that her embryo novel was no more than a bundle of disjointed reminiscences. Meanwhile, she worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved Roy, but his environment proved too strong for her love. Finally there was Louis Bayard, cultured, a little dried...
...Washington, discussing mergers and consolidations with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Their deliberations have naturally been in secret, and few echoes have passed the closed doors to the eager financial reporters outside. Accordingly, fantastic rumors of all sorts have gained space and credence. Every financial editor has had his own pet notion of how the merging of the Eastern roads ought to be done...
...risk of receiving infernal machines by mail, this department nominates Al Jolson as the big pet of joy, in fact as the geyser of gaiety. After an endless wandering in Bombo, he is preparing to go into action in Big Boy at approximately 9 p. m. every evening of the winter except Sunday...
...open to the Fine Arts, it naturally attracts the best talent in the University. The portraits of Professor Kittredge, Professor Baker, H. T. Parker, Walter Hampden and other interpreters of the drama, the realistic studies of life in the gymnasium, and the seductive portrait of a pre-Raphaelite pet called Gladys cannot be impaired in value by the cryptic remarks placed under them, remarks which are preferable to the virtual spirit of the club rather than to any sense of humour...
...GOING TO AUSTRALIA ALONE. ... The pride of Andy and Min has gone to Australia to see Uncle Bim. . . . Children will look forward with unprecedented eagerness to the weekly page of Chester Gump's travels and adventures -the mysteries of the ocean liner, the Bim Gump castle, the pet kangaroo, the army of servants, the diamond mines and all the vast possessions of the rich and lonely Uncle...