Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wimpole Street backed up against one of London's grisliest slums, one of whose well-organized rackets it was to steal Wimpole Street's pets and hold them for ransom. If the ransom were not quickly forthcoming, the pet's paws and head were returned to the owners in a bag. Once (in reality, three times, says Biographer Woolf in a note) Flush was so kidnapped by these racketeers. Everybody, including Mr. Browning, advised Miss Barrett to refuse to pay ransom, sacrifice Flush on the altar of law & order. Miss Barrett indignantly refused, went herself to beard...
...with a thick black mustache and a high forehead, Broker Stetson is a civic-minded Philadelphia socialite whose pet hobby is raising fish. His mother, who became the Countess Santa Eulalia of Portugal after old John Stetson's death, added $4,000,000 to Son Stetson's hat fortune when she died in 1929. As a director of John B. Stetson Co., Broker Stetson has watched his father's business become one of the largest fine hat-makers in the U. S. It still makes ten gallon models, but the bulk of its $5,000,000 annual...
...pet which observers once thought would have to pay the world's highest animal income tax, pays none. Tobey, last of a succession of 18 similarly-named French poodles, was not even mentioned in the will disposing of the late, eccentric Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel's $40,000,000 estate. Grown fat and phlegmatic in his ninth year, Tobey still lives in the ugly old house on Fifth Avenue at 39th Street, with two servants whose only duties are to care...
...Manhattan, twelve small boys went to court, had Henry Christ, 18, sent to jail for five days for throwing their pet poodle out of a second-story window...
...Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi...