Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work for the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. Back in Washington, he composed The Doughboys March, which the U. S. Army band at Fort Washington, Md., near where he has a farm and summer home, still plays. Professor Viehoever's laboratory, where a pet white kitten dabbles in his bowls of Daphnia, is in a red-brick house next to the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science's garden. He likes to recall that this garden, surrounded by a high spiked fence, was planted by the late Dr. Frederick B. Kilmer, a trustee...
Only reassurance Governor Earle got last week as he prepared to sign his pet bill was from the cinema chains, which are included on the same basis as chain stores. Said a spokesman from Warner Brothers, biggest chain in the State (180 theatres) : "We are submitting gracefully. Everybody's sort of getting used to this tax business. I guess we ought to be happy we aren't living in Germany or Russia...
Swashbuckling Premier General Senjuro Hayashi, head of Japan's "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, summarily dissolved the Diet two months ago because the Diet's Minseito (majority) & Seijukai (minority) parties truculently refused to pass one of his pet measures...
...named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam." When M. Grantaire tapped on one of her filaments, Reporter Paine's straight-faced account continued, "Sara" ran up his finger for a fly, after which "the startling pet tripped back indoors with the booty...
...Pet. Dartmouth 8 2 .800 Yale 6 2 .750 Harvard 5 3 .625 Penn 5 6 .455 Princeton 4 5 .444 Columbia 5 7 .417 Cornell 2 10 .167 This Week's Schedule Saturday--Princeton at Penn...