Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refreshing it is, after all to see Radcliffians engage in such a flagrantly geuinine pursuit. Secure in the knowledge that we have finally lived down and buried our reputation of the dark ages, we can now knit mittens and pet the college cats without fear of being called potential old maids...
...There is much committee forming and arranging of benefits and along with these a large amount of publicity. There is the use of influential names without much spirit behind them, and continual buying of tickets for one's own and one's friends' so-called 'pet charities.'. . . It is a fine thing to be known as a public spirited citizen and it is pleasant to read of one's activities in the paper. ... It is also much easier for some people to lend their names and subscribe a few dollars for tickets than...
...First use of his pet name for her in public. *Though no longer Queen she retains by a legal settlement the title of Her Majesty...
When Johann Strauss II visited the U. S. in 1872 his wife fairly stripped her pet poodle for hairs to give to admirers who believed they came from the great composer's head. When Johann Strauss III left Vienna, Viennese prophesied that he would return without the loss of a single one of his sleek grey locks...
Died. "Polly," 76, last surviving pet of Poet James Whitcomb Riley; at the home of a neighbor in Indianapolis...