Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High on the list of Wellesley's pet aversion stands the crew-cut. "Awful!" they say. "They look bristly in front and half-shaved behind." "Only about one boy in fifty has a head well-shaped enough to get away with it." A close runner-up is the emphatically-voiced dislike of moustaches. The "No's" boomed back with unhesitating rapidity and with no exceptions whatsoever. "They're much too young for moustaches," was a typical comment...
...trustees last week picked as her successor and the school's fifth headmistress Miss Dorothy Brockway. Pretty, young (37), brunette Dorothy Brockway, graduate of swankless Barnard College, has for the past eight years been assistant supervisor at Miss Hewitt's classes. Practical Miss Brockway's pet policy is emphasizing citizenship, showing her pupils how the other 99% live. To this end she has made a practice of taking them to places which would have shocked aristocratic Miss Spence into calling for smelling salts: Ellis Island, the Stock Exchange, the Children's Court, Fulton Fish Market...
...grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...
...admits makes him shudder: "Mile de Bauret had a taste for letters and the arts, but her literary education only commenced with the end of the 19th Century. Which is to say it amounted to nothing. She looked at the world and explained it in terms of the pet theories of a few fashionable authors. For instance, she sincerely believed that every man had been in love with his mother when he was a child." His wit has plenty of vinegar: "It is a great mistake to place unlimited confidence in the malice of man. They seldom...
...this restricted parliament of farmers. The job of the farm leaders would be to ratify the program worked out by his New Deal experts. Secretary Wallace, Chester Davis and their aides had just three days to draft such a program while the farm leaders were assembling. Each had a pet plan and the others spent their time pointing out the legal and economic flaws in his proposals...