Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case, Mr. Nash's poems would not present an understandable picture of what he primarily intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable book of lyrical doggerel...
...caddy at the Omaha Field Club, contributed his earnings of 50? a day toward the support of the ten Goodman children after their mother died and their happy-go-lucky father wandered off to try his luck in Wyoming. A likable little towhead, Johnny soon found himself the pet of the club members, was encouraged to practice with their sticks on the back part of the links. The first time he played nine full holes of the club course he shot a 37, one over par. That was in the 1923 caddies' tournament, which he won. The first time...
...Pet project of Cuba's Army Strongman, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, is his Three-Year Plan, a 20-point New Deal inaugurated last year. Under it he has thus far distributed to indigent farmers well over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists...
Except that he played no cards, Seabiscuit spent his three-and-a-half-day journey last week in pretty much the same way as the other passengers on the Overland Limited, to which his car was attached. Accompanied by his favorite pet, a nine-year-old pony named Pumpkin, and his trainer, laconic Tom Smith, who slept on a home-sized bed next to him, Seabiscuit occupied one third of the 80-foot horse car* Owner Howard had chartered (for $1,500) for the trip. He watched the scenery through his car windows, walked around for exercise, was carefully...
...large black and white sign bearing the inscription "Chase Animal Farm" adorned the front of Chase Hall over the weekend. Members of the business school dormitory are said to be using this method of fighting the University's removal of several pet rabbits that one of the members had been training...