Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recordings he uses only six. After he gets his bing gang together, Fats wants to have a chain of orchestras. "I wants to grab all dose cats that sings and put 'em in Fats Waller units," he said. Fats' favorite colored band is Fletcher Henderson's, while his pet white orchestra is Tommy Dorsey's. He prefers Ambrose to Ray Noble...
...latest of Fascist corporations belonged to neither Vittorio Mussolini nor Hollywood Producer Hal Roach. It belonged to an earnest Italian, Dr. Renato Senise, nephew of the chief of Rome's secret police and son of an Academician. To Hollywood he went over a year ago fired with his pet idea, the production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach. Mr. Roach has spent a great many of his 45 years in Hollywood among the custard pies of its comedy lots. There he demonstrated his possession...
...that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx. But one man kept his discipleship alive. This was Tiffany Thayer, whose gaudy, perfervid novels (Thirteen Men, Thirteen Women, Illustrious Corpse, etc.) are not unlike the writings of Charles Fort, and who keeps a 9-ft. python as a pet...
Inaugurated this fall was one of President Conant's finest pet ideas: the National Scholarship Plan, financed by the bountiful Tercentenary Fund. Created two years ago, this fund established the roving professorships and national scholarships, the latter to be bestowed upon promising youths from every section of the country that they might have an opportunity for study at a great American university. Last year scholarships of one thousand dollars were made available to students from fifteen states, ten in the Middle West and five in the South and Far West. As soon as additional rescources are at hand, the plan...
...lexicon of permissible slang Mrs. Post, who was once heard to describe a table layout as "lousy," adds such expressions as "O.K.." "swell," "divine," "and how!" "so what?" "you betcha." But she never hears "colyum," "ottawobile," "eggsit," "tomayto," "cult-your" (which she pronounces "cultcha")* in good society. Her pet hate: pretentious circumlocutions such as "permit me to assist you" instead of "let me help...