Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much has been written and more said about that most annoying of the University's pet rules and regulations, devised to poster students in general, land impractical students in particular, that bugaboo of bugaboos, the Science requirement...
There, wrapped neatly in a bundle, are the pet theories of some of our most advanced thinkers. Can these remedies do what the Ten Commandments have failed...
...make a speech to a heterogeneous audience which included three Cabinet members, Bernard Baruch, the Federal Administrator of Relief, some Congressmen. Mrs. Roosevelt and many a humble relief worker. But by the time he left the auditorium stage he had been so carried away by what he called "my pet children" that he had spent half an hour, leaning over the back of a chair and talking spontaneously. Though the White House had no text of his informal words, alert newshawks caught most of them. Declared the President...
Plan-Maker. The President's "pet children" are also problem children, and Milburn L. Wilson, the man whose exhibit touched off the President's enthusiasm, is their tutor. Tutor Wilson was an Iowa farm boy, who got a college education and went back to farming. Later he became head of the division of Farm Management for the Department of Agriculture. As a professor at Montana State College, he plunged into the problem of dry-farming, of raising more wheat per acre than had been grown before. Soon overproduction reversed his problem. He disowns authorship of the Domestic Allotment...
While playing backgammon in the garden of her villa at Juan-les-Pins, France, Maxine Elliott, oldtime actress-beauty, was nipped on the ankle by her pet monkey, Kiki. Furious, Queen Elliott had Jester Kiki's teeth pulled out. Next day Queen Elliott, appeased, took gory-gummed Kiki for a walk...