Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballot. He had declared he did not want to be President, would not be a candidate for the nomination. Two years ago he wrote of the Presidency as the final sacrifice," adding: "The restraint, artificiality and loneliness in the White House . . . seems the life of a pet in a gilded cage." But Baker-for-President sentiment does not easily down. Last December a South Carolina friend wrote to urge candidacy upon him. Mr. Baker sidestepped thus: "The times clearly present a great opportunity for service. . . .The situation of the world changes from day to day. Nobody can safely forecast what...
...Pet Puppies...
...around to the audience for a change, started to talk. The audience shifted uncomfortably. This was no happy ending to a happy occasion. The conductor was praising his own orchestra at the expense of others. His auditors were startled when he referred to U. S. orchestras as "Luxu-shunde [pet puppies] which one keeps without inner necessity...
...speech started a great hodud in Berlin. The newspapers rebuked Herr Furtwangler for making unnecessary, unfriendly remarks. The U. S. Embassy protested to the German Foreign Office. Last week steam from the Berlin teapot reached the U. S. The pet puppy metamor was headlined in the news, vigorously attacked. People who remembered the circumstances of Herr Furtwangler's New York Philharmonic engagement were inclined to dismiss his statement as a case of wounded vanity. His first U. S. concerts (1924-25) were brilliant. But after Toscanini came he let himself be heckled by adverse press criticism, lost his confidence...
...Oilman Kingsbury retaliated by sending a truck filled with water buffaloes, elks, and lesser animals C. O. D. to the bank, its arrival being announced by a lusty, liveried bugler. Mr. Fleishhacker was once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking and growling. Another time he set a trap in Mr. Kingsbury's office so that when the oilman opened the door 100 pigeons flew into his face. Hilarious was the scene when Mr. Kingsbury entered the bank...