Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautiful debutante in New York, referred to by Portraitist Richard Hall as ''the perfect woman, nobly planned." Daughter Victoria Morosini eloped with the family coachman and was disinherited. Nobody but the immediate family ever saw Daughter Amelia. According to Riverdale gossip she was horribly mauled by a pet bear as a child, disfigured for life, always lived shut up in a special apartment at the top of the house...
Daughter Giulia was the old Doge's pet. Beautiful, wild and wilful, she was a magnificent horsewoman and used to spend $200,000 a year on her clothes. At one horse show she wore 17 different costumes. Newspapers once published her dress budget. It included 365 pairs of gloves. She would never wear a pair twice...
...officially suspected of the murders of his common law wife Marion Miller, her two pet dogs, and of John ("Dingbat") O'Berta, Sam Malaga, Spot Butcher, George Meighan, William Dickman, James Quigley, Thaddeus Fancher, Frank Cochrane. Famed was his duel with gunmen in the German Deaconess Hospital while he lay with his leg in a cast...
...poor Midwestern boyhood to a partnership in a big old Manhattan brokerage firm, a house, wife & children in Yonkers, a fat income, fat prospects. On the verge of middle age he still had his health and good looks. But he had fallen in love with Sylvia March Brownlow Wickliffe, pet-named June. A luscious copper-brunette, she fired Sherrill's blood, let him buy her presents, but for a long time would not give him what he wanted. When she became his mistress, he soon found her a hard one. Business troubles, his wife, a sick child, even golf...
...Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox, Foraker, Platt et al. in a Cosmopolitan magazine series called "The Treason of the Senate." President Roosevelt, irked by this intrusion on what he considered his private hunting ground, first used his pet word "muckraker" in veiled denunciation of the author...