Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CALL OUT THE FLYING SQUAD-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Inspector Silver, investigating a country murder, encounters Scotland Yard's pet criminal...
...present standings: Won Lost Pet. Columbia 9 2 .818 Harvard 4 1 .800 Yale 6 2 .750 Dartmouth 3 4 .429 Pennsylvania 4 6 .400 Cornell 1 5 .167 Princeton...
...smart East End Avenue and Henderson Place did not know what they had to contend with when their cats began to disappear last fortnight. Even a socialite cat may stray, but when Writer Gilbert Seldes' Daisy, Lawyer Walter Richmond Herrick's Tiddles and several other pets vanished in quick succession it began to look as though there were a gatophobe in the neighborhood. Peter Herrick, 10, whose favorite pet Tiddles had been for some seven years, took to his bed with a fever, would not be comforted...
...windows while she was entertaining dinner guests. She got a trap from the International Cat Investigating Society (to which Lawyer Herrick, then New York City's Park Commissioner, had sent a letter of encouragement when it formed in 1931 to agitate for licensing of the city's pet cats, destruction of its strays). Last week the Society's Secretary & General Manager James M. Loughborough said he had taken seven cats from the Parkinson trap, loosed them a mile and a half downtown. While Peter Herrick lay inconsolably abed, police, S. P. C. A. and the Women...
While the Statesmen parleys and inflation temporarily occupy the stage front in the Washington political setting, Miss Secretary of Labor Perkins is doing her best to push her pet labor project through its last barrier, the House. This bill, known as the Black bill, makes a compulsory thirty-hour week for industry. In the process of its legal fruition it has fortunately struck a snag and there is every reason to believe sweeping changes must and will be effected in it, for as it is now constituted, this opus of Mr. Black is of serious portent to both labor...