Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pet fancies" of the King-Emperor include, according to Tailor and Cutter: 1) "black and tan boots"; 2) "turn-back cuffs to overcoats"; 3) "double-breasted waistcoats." . . . "Yet there is no mark of overdressing or nibbling at exotic or freakish modes...
Many a Congressman, too, drifted into the hearing to do special battle for some pet product grawn in his district...
...Manhattan last week, 7,500 birds, 187 rabbits, 15 cavies (i. e., guinea pigs), and a great number of persons crowded the basement of Madison Square Garden. This was the 40th Annual Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Show...
Bennett devoted his later years almost exclusively to the Paris edition of the Herald, which had long been the pet of his most lavish whims. He died in 1918 at Beaulieu, France, aged 77.* The Herald was sold to the late Frank Andrew Munsey and was later merged with the New York Tribune...
...Austria's presidential election. Not the People but Parliament would ballot. Thus far the new Republic of Austria had had only one President, beloved Dr. Michael Hainisch, he of the white Santa Claus whiskers and ruddy cheeks, nose. So great is the popularity of Dr. Hainisch and his pet prize cow, Bella (TIME, April 2), that recently the Austrian Government felt obliged to issue an official communiqué scotching false rumors that Bella had died...