Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, a band of rowdies burst into a narrow street thronged with auctioneers and buyers in a pet animal market, shouted " Earthquake ! Earthquake!" caused a stampede that injured 60 people and destroyed hundreds of caged canaries, cats, dogs, chickens, parrots...
...very modestly. He smiled steadily. He said that he came to America seeking fights with Mike McTigue (who defeated him for the world's light-heavyweight championship in Dublin), Luis Firpo, Jack Dempsey. He was accompanied by his manager and two other French fighters (all white). His pet lion was not in the party...
Epilogue to the recent syndicated siege of " Books That Have Helped Me Most," "Books to Take On a Desert Island," and their like, eleven well known writers and critics, questioned by Vanity Fair, " Who are, to your mind, the ten dullest authors "I " make frank confession of their pet literary abominations. The questionees are as diverse as possible -George Jean Nathan, Christopher Morley, Edna Ferber, James Branch Cabell, Hugh Walpole are five of the number - and they certainly agitate the pedestals of many accepted literary deities...
...Sometimes I think," Mr. Tilden added, "that you've all forgotten how to laugh in New York!" Perhaps we only snicker and snigger. Who knows? At any rate, whatever may be our pet noise which denotes amusement, we shall probably bring it forth when we encounter Mr. Tilden's Mr. Podd, unless, perhaps, we are members of "the lunatic fringe...
...then from a rafter stories up in the air, where she had wandered in search oi her runaway Peke, almost decided to jilt the strong, silent Martin because his father ate sauerkraut and split his infinitives. So far we were for young Hope? strong, silent yokels being our pet abhorrence and the homelife of the Van Huisches as displayed on the screen something that needed a muzzle rather than a daughter-in-law. But she weakened ?darn it?and everything came out just splendid for Virtue and Simplicity...