Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen-year-old Chauffeur Stoner, a consumer of cocaine sandwiches, egged on by his neurotic 38-year-old mistress, Mrs. Francis Mawson Rattenbury, murdered her 67-year-old husband whom she had always called by the pet name "Rats." So harshly did English public opinion crack down on Mistress Rattenbury that she soon committed suicide while 300,000 English signatures piled up on a mercy petition for young Stooge Stoner who had been sentenced to hang. An appeal by Stoner's lawyers was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice as "a mere waste of time." The Lords of Appeal...
...manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled in gutter fisticuffs is more fun than harp-twanging, she is the favorite household pet of everyone except Mrs. Parker. That she finally succeeds in winning over the entire cast is evidenced when at the end the whole family partakes of Mulligan stew-Ginger's favorite dish-in a garret room. "This," cries the elegant Mrs. Parker, "is the nuts...
...confused with Sister "Cherie" (Joan Marie), 13, pet & playmate of Sing Sing trusties...
President Roosevelt was at no pains to conceal his displeasure over this threat to one of his pet reforms. And on his side he has all investment bankers, who have no desire to share their current prosperity. However, some Washington quidnuncs suspected that the underwriting section might have been inserted for no other reason than to have something to throw out in the Course of final bargaining between the House and Senate...
...Crow never whipped their children, punished them by holding them down and pouring water up their noses. Little Crow boys played at being warriors and hunters, shot at targets, went on mock hunts of pet buffalo calves. One of their games was to throw stones into the water, crying "icbirikyū' bābirikyū'p" so that the last syllable coincided exactly with the splash. Little Crow girls played house, enjoyed the women's game of shinny. Dice was also considered a woman's game. Gray- bull spoke of squaws who were always shooting dice...