Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Menace": priests in various parts of Russia have now nimbly inserted Bolshevism into their creed and are preaching what seems to peasants a harmonious blend of Communism and Christianity. The Godless bitterly complained last week that priests have identified themselves so closely with Joseph Stalin's pet collective farms as to announce sternly from their pulpits that peasants who refuse to join the collective cannot receive the ministrations of Mother Church. There is also a great deal of climbing up and down painting the crosses on Soviet churches a brilliant Bolshevik red with the beaming acquiescence of the clergy...
...Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...
...autograph seeker interrupted the ex-champion's thoughts and when he returned it was to dwell on his pet hate, the newspapermen. "Why, in the old days if any writer had dared hint that a fight was fixed he'd have been run out of town, but today that's the first thing they think about. That's the trouble with these writers...
...later a reward of 1,000 taels. An ardent Christian, he thought that figure too high, gladly accepted the medal and 500 taels. From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most of his time with his pet meadow lark, the rest in looking up the few friends left who remember, and in preaching on street corners whenever a crowd will gather. He asks no favors, but this genuine Chinese hero would hardly be complimented to know that his likeness had been mistaken for one of China...
...means of payment in the hands of those who will spend increases faster than goods can be produced." On this definition he bases a rhetorical question: "How is it possible to have inflation when men are idle and plants are idle?" _ However, nearly every economist has his own pet idea of what constitutes inflation, largely because of the astonishing lack of agreement on just where good times become a boom and a boom becomes inflation. On only one point is there any unanimity: the possibilities of inflation in the U. S. lie almost wholly within the banking system...