Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muskegon, Mich., John Kuzon, 41, confessed to striking his wife with a hammer after she had accused him of killing her pet lamb. "Later I went to the basement to sleep," he said, "and she crawled over to me and put her head on my chest and said, 'O. daddy, love me.' I told her to get away." John Kuzon then went out and dug a five foot grave in his hen coop. "I went back to the house and got my wife. She wanted to know where I was taking her. I told her I was going...
...intimidated government officials into providing them with transportation. The threat of violence, always only implied, but ever present, has everywhere extorted food and shelter from the communities through which the veterans are passing. As a result of their efforts they are securing a vote in Congress on their pet bill, which calls for payment of $2,400,000,000 in fiat money as bonus; it is not inconceivable that these men may be able to make a raid on the Treasury, in one way or another...
...which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism, which seems to be less common than dwarfism. Giants and dwarfs are as a rule sterile. Henrietta Maria, queen to King Charles I of England was curious about the fertility of her dwarfs, ordered her pet, Richard Gibson to marry another pet, Anne. The Gibsons together measured 7 ft. 2 in. They had nine children, of whom five lived. The five attained normal stature. Queen Catherine de Medici in a spirit of scientific research forced all her court dwarfs to mate. All were barren...
Though soon to become Dictator of Thalia, Hannibal, when Journalist Slocombe first encounters him in Switzerland, is an anarchist of the deepest dye. Though politically a heman, personally he has traits barely infantile. When a girl at his Swiss boarding house repulses his torrid advances, in a pet he plants a dummy bomb under his bed to terrify the boarders, decamps for England. From anarchist lair to lair he jumps. In Paris he meets Luciana, who recognizes the star of fortune burning over his beetling brow. She becomes his mistress, mothers him and his destiny with incomparable tact...
...young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little white goat. In the morning the curator finds the boy's body wedged high between the bars; the great elephant swaying to & fro beside his softly bleating goat...