Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stephen Leacock (Nonsense Novels). Retiring at 66 after 33 years in McGill's department of political economy, Humorist Leacock cheerfully became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." ¶ Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract nine years ago gave Publisher Hearst his first university degree. Last week Ogelthorpe made a Doctor of Laws of Mr. Hearst...
First move to reassure Herriot was to snub the Communists' plan for "Popular Front committees" in every village and town to be shaped eventually into Communist Soviets. Then, speaking before the American Club of Paris, tactful Leon Blum came out for Herriot's two pet schemes: friendship with Germany and payment of the War debt...
Early next morning the Enterprise was warped into a pier at Haifa, Palestine. A gangplank was run ashore and perspiring British sailors began unloading the personal treasure of Ethiopia's fugitive Emperor: six automobiles, ten tons of trunks, boxes, bales and other personal baggage, a pet python, 100 steel-bound cases containing coins and bullion. Only a pistol shot away lay the Italian steamer Carnaro loaded with pilgrims for the Holy Land...
...doors, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor was told off to go and pay the fines. Out the court building's back door soon slipped the two Congressmen. To newshawks Representative Zioncheck announced that he was going back to his apartment to look after his four pet terrapins. Representative O'Connor suggested that he might do better to consult a psychiatrist...
...tour the Company has required a special train with five baggage cars for scenery, eleven Pullmans for the dancers, stagehands and the 50-odd orchestramen. The train is a world by itself. Baronova is twitted for her marriage and the fact that it caused her to desert her two pet monkeys. Toumanova is teased about one admirer in Austin, Tex., who sends her flowers at every railroad stop, another in Montreal who besieges her with presents and long-distance telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train...