Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duchess of Hamilton, inspired by seeing her son, Marquis of Douglas, "pummel" the "Bermondsey Pet," professional pugilist, in a six-round contest, decided that international disputes ought to be settled by fisticuffs. Said she: "As I watched the fight the thought uppermost in my mind was, what a pity we cannot revert to the Viking days when tribal disputes were settled by fights between picked men. If we could only choose 100 boxers from each side and let them decide, how much better it would be than awful war. . . . Boxing teaches young men to take hard knocks, and self-control...
Team. Won Lost Pet...
Much later on when Servia had become the pet of the British public, he sat next to Lord Birkenhead at a public dinner, and was mischievously asked. What about that Servian poster of yours? I expect you're sorry by this time that you sent...
...literature; the histrionic and ineffective father; Godfrey, the actor-brother, with a sonorous voice and the manner of a Grand Duke; Aunt Julie, the Incubus, who descends in all her Victorian smugness on the Hunter household for a protracted and intolerable visit; Felix's wife, " a passionate, exciting pet"; old Jacob, his friend, obstinately liberal, who is " one of the men who deliberately choose their wives...
...cold. Instead, with a vivid and stern realism he paints a picture of sweltering heat, disease, fever, and death in the midst of a polyglot community of picturesque but unattractive traders (and scoundrels), ignorant and unpleasant savages, and an anomalous horde of half-castes, to say nothing of his pet aversions, the Presbyterian missionaries and the "Orstrylyun" bagmen. There is more of Somerset Maugham than...