Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Troublemaking Governor Hoffman is "an especial pet of Hearst." "And Hearst talks of vermin...
Ever since the assassination of his brother in 1923, Dictator Gomez has avoided the capital. Seventy-seven miles away at his enormous ranch Las Delicias he sat under a giant rubber tree, feeding peanuts to his pet elephant, beaming fondly at his squalling, illegitimate offspring, governing the country as The Meritorious One, a title officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their...
...severe black cloak she was a tortured Yemenite youth wailing to God to take away his sadness. Just as surely, she was a voluptuous young Spanish girl wandering wistfully in her garden at dusk, an Arabian merchant comically scorning the Jews, a Felahi shepherdess who lost her pet lamb and joyfully found it again. Deeply stirring was her impersonation of a Persian woman possessed by grief and awe as she swayed over her father's tomb. Never did she make her audience feel a need for words...
...university need not squirm because one of its professors publicly opposes the pet policy of seedy politicians who immodestly call themselves statesmen. A radical, wild-eyed communist does not enhance the reputation of his Alma Mater, but on the other hand the timid scholar who buries himself and his wisdom in dusky library stacks likewise does little in this direction. Professors who state their candid opinions clearly and back them up with sensible arguments certainly are not "agitators...
...mere fact that Stahley and Harlow are working in harmony bids fair to speed the Varsity work in future years. Amazing as it may seem, under Eddie Casoy the Varsity and the Freshmen were taught two completely different styles of play, while the Jayvees had their own pet little systems on another lot. This ridiculous system led to the existence of a supreme confusion at Soldiers Field and necessitated complete drill is new systems of play with every promotion. But now this mess has been cleared away and for the first time since the days of Percy Haughton unity...