Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowed to open a synagogue at K'ai-feng Fu in 1164, since when they have enjoyed the protection of the authorities. Persecution of the Jew is relatively unknown in China; but they nevertheless keep very much to themselves, most probably because they abhor the Chinamen's pet food, the pig. They are known to the Chinese as "the sect of those who take out the sinew," which refers to their peculiar method of preparing meat in order to make it kosher...
Under an imported ceiling depicting the more unprintable scenes from Ovid, she held "salons" in Old World style-and thither flocked celebrities American and European. She hired a lion from Bostock Circus, took it home for a pet. She mastered jiu jitsu, and many a corpulent matron strove to do likewise to keep up. She admired Sandow, famed strong man, and sat unconcernedly in ' box to see Jim Corbett, at a time when such behavior was, for a lady, unheard of. She hired Paderewski on one occasion, distributing tickets to all who wished to hear him. She sponsored...
...plot is not the point. It is Fields with his delightful German accent who carries the show. Even the saddest situations, handled by this popular pet of the last decade, become the subject of uncontrolled mirth. The scene in the office of Al Tyler with off-stage jazz bands, is a true picture of the slapdash production of vaudeville and musical belly-wash by the mighty morons of the "continuous." This scene allows the introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing...
...Bill (proportional representation), pet project of the Liberals, was killed by an adverse vote of 238 to 144. Liberals fretted and fumed, threatened to turn Labor out of office, but that latter Party turned not a hair. The Duchess of Athol supported Labor and acted with a Laborite as teller in the division lobby...
...undergraduate has only the intrinsic merit of drinking itself as a lure. And judging from observation, this lure is not overwhelmingly seductive among college men. The greatest factor seems to be the innate dislike for authority; the survival from school days of the contempt for the "teacher's pet" and the "goody-goody", who represent in the popular mind the upright and the law-abiding...