Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved that it had the old patient endurance last night as 13 undergraduate extra-curricular leaders sold their pet projects to the new Yardlings, sold by brilliant bombast, repartee, swear words, and even a lengthy joke here and there...
...writes, "here I am. A country whose individual life covers over 4,000 years, and whose living breath had been blowing upon me across broad seas, whose finger had been beckoning me." The boa constrictor did not enter her life until she had returned to New York. The pet of a Hindu princess, it took a strange liking to Miss Crocker, coiled itself around her, stayed with her all the time. She gave an elaborate dinner for it. The dinner was a great success, except that the newspapers "picked it up and made the story into that of an orgy...
...moved to Washington. He not only had to run Eccles Investment Co., which manages the family fortune, but also the family's large Stoddard Lumber Co., First Security Corp. which owns 26 banks in Utah and Idaho, one in Wyoming, Sego Milk Products (now a subsidiary of Pet), Utah Construction Co. (one of Six Companies, Inc. which helped build Boulder Dam) and several lesser concerns...
...third biggest city with a corporate history going back only half a century. To celebrate Vancouver's 50th anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys who profit out of a Depression are the gang who are pleased to call themselves...
...lost them during their honeymoon and only began to harbor a secret resentment at Camille's plans for remaking their house. While it was being done over they lived on the ninth floor of a Paris apartment, to which Alain soon found an excuse for bringing his pet. As the young couple began to quarrel, after the first ardor of their passion died, Camille grew to hate the cat, at last pushed it off the railing. Then she felt at peace, dressed herself fetchingly, waited for her husband's return. He came in carrying the cat, scarcely injured...