Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of this article at least must have been dictated by someone who was not fully cognizant of the facts. The argument in my bedroom started when I sent for the receiver to come over so that I could give him a list of a few old pet horses that I had in the corral that had never belonged to the 101 Ranch. There was nothing said about the pigs or any chickens, but there had been reports carried to me of the gun-toting lawyers of the receiver and we had a heated argument over these personal horses...
...hungry wolves to invade towns in search of food, a fact which frequently provides U. S. newspapers with exciting items. Last week in the most thickly populated part of the U. S. occurred the following incidents: 1) In Brooklyn a bear wandered away from Richard Herrold's pet shop, entered a nearby house and rifled a refrigerator, frightening a Mrs Christine Schubert and her 13-year-old son Emil. 2) In Manhattan a pet fox bit Policeman Henry A Bosel. 3) In Washington, D. C., Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry La Guardia continued a Congressional attack upon the bulls...
Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull, sire of all the calves born on the Lewis farm at Burlington, N. J. Farmer Lewis' children were just as proud of a pet monkey their father had given them. All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine. Wary it avoided the bull-until one day last week...
...Baum, Vienna-born German novelist, playwright of Grand Hotel, told of the severe criticism she met in Germany when she declared a wish to become a U. S. citizen and have her two sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution to raise my boys in a country in which...
...thoroughgoing believer in the special creation of Man." He also advocates Prohibition. He once took a five-foot grey & yellow king snake before a Congressional Committee to startle them into approving the creation of Everglades National Park at the southwest tip of Florida. The king snake was his library pet. His current aversion is Birth Control, his pet foe Mrs. Margaret Sanger...