Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mike, Farewell! We all regret you, Although you would not let us pet you; Of cats, the wisest oldest best cat, This be your motto,-Requiescat...
...Michael, the doyen of all Bloomsbury felines, was quite as proud and pompous as the gloomy edifice he guarded. Residents of Bloomsbury, whose suspicion of strangers is chronic and world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked, and laid...
Pressed by a newsman to declare his pet aversion, he said, "Fools, perhaps. Scripture tells us 'Suffer fools gladly,' but Chesterton goes Scripture one better with 'Enjoy fools uproariously.' " His favorite novelist is Warwick Deeping, his favorite novel Sorrell...
...champion of the right of women to have legal residences separate from their husbands. Recently she went before the New York legislature with members of the National Women's party to advocate such a bill. Last week, the bill was voted on-and newspapers headlined "Walska's Pet Bill Passes." But it was Walska's pet bill in a deformed state. It gave New York women the right to establish separate legal residences for voting and office holding. For purposes of taxation they still, in the law's eyes, reside with their husbands. Thus was Dame...
...scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful thing about them; they always had something to say, and then, they laughed so easily. Peter began to think he too was quite a light. This backed up his pet theories; now he was getting somewhere...