Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family's pet biographer, with Victoria the Widow and her Son and The Romance of Windsor Castle to his credit...
...Brooksville, Fla., Mrs. Jesse Callahan asserted that her pet hen "Happy Ann" will warble long or short tunes, loudly or softly, as directed...
...about four months of age she left the sanatorium much to our regret for this infant had become the pet of the nurses and doctors. She had been with us six months. . . . She continued to regress until she assumed the foetal posture, breathing gently being her only movement. At this time she was sent to a State hospital where soon she was gathered into the womb of her mother earth to which we all regress soon or late...
Laced though the U. S. is with airlines which serve every State but one,* there are still many places where a reorientation of routes would benefit both the public and the airline operators. Well aware of this are all lines and each important one has its own pet scheme to rectify the situation to its advantage. United Air Lines, which now flies across the U. S. through Cheyenne, would like to run a parallel route through Denver, which is served only by the north-south Wyoming...
George and Lennie were ranch hands. George was small, wiry, tough, shrewd; Lennie was enormous, floppy-looking but Herculean, and a halfwit. George and Lennie were pals. Lennie was always getting them into trouble, losing them jobs, getting them run out of town because he liked to pet things - mice, little girls, rabbits. Not conscious of his blundering strength, Lennie was apt to kill what he petted. George kept him in line as well as he could by bawling him out, threatening to leave him, telling him a beautiful fairy story about how they would save enough money...