Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given by him got front-page headline type just as big & black (or red) as his attack on the current "worst Governor Colorado has ever had." A two-column story told Post readers how the publisher had landed a 7-lb. trout (which was later alleged to be a pet fish named "Elmer," snared from a preserve). He loudly invited children to write him descriptions of their lost pets. "Big Brother" Bonfils would find them...
...minutes later Mrs. Vodegel heard agonized whines, rushed out to find the dogs writhing in convulsions. Before a veterinarian could arrive, eleven dachshunds valued at $6,500 lay dead of strychnine poisoning. Two died later in a pet hospital...
...that this Lion Dog of China knew regal splendor when Europeans were "still swinging from the trees by their tails." Fanciers now generally agree that the dog probably took on its present aspect in the 7th Century A. D., but Chinese tradition holds that it was the pet of Emperors 4,000 years ago. Ancient carvings, pictures and effigies of a grotesque animal resembling the Pekingese seem to substantiate this belief...
...troops captured Peking from which the Court had fled, sacked the nearby Summer Palace. French and British officers burst into one of its rooms, found a self-slain Princess surrounded by five of her faithful little Lion Dogs. These were sent back to England, where one, "Lootie," became the pet of Queen Victoria. An occasional animal smuggled from the Peking Palace kept the English stock from degeneration through inbreeding. The year 1912 in China saw the end of divine sovereignty for Emperors and dogs. Thereafter fresh specimens of the dog were imported more freely to add to the growing stock...
Still largely a pet of the rich, the Pekingese is regarded by most nonowners as a snobbish, fragile toy. But its fanciers claim for it intelligence, warmheartedness, loyalty and all the courage of that far-off, amorous lion...