Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyesight, owned a couple of collies. His home is near the two great westbound main lines of the B & O and Big Four (beyond these tracks flows the Ohio River). One day a train killed one of his dogs. He knew of the accident, and instead of burying his pet, left that job to the section-crew. But somebody took the lifeless body, strung it up and built the fire as described to me by the policeman who discovered it. ... MRS. EDITH JUDKINS KNAUL...
...Grand Rapids, Mich.. thieves stole Jacob Popowicz's pet rabbit, returned another night and took his silverware. Third time they came Jacob Popowicz had prepared for them. He left them, and they seized a hive of bees...
...enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote unless G. O. P. leaders promised to relax the "gag rule" of debate and allow floor votes on pet insurgent measures. Even long-legged, grinning John Quillin Tilson, last year's Republican floor leader and now a -candidate for the G. O. P. Speakership, began to talk about "co- operation" between the parties in the next House "for the good of the country." The final result, however, depended...
...securities than anyone else: bush-bearded Arthur Curtiss James. Last week, however, Investor James cast worry from his mind, entered the festive spirit that surrounds an oldtime tradition?the driving- of-the-golden-spike.* With a few blows he drove the spike into a specially-prepared tie. linked his pet road, the Western Pacific, to the Great Northern system...
...monocle as well known abroad as that worn by Sir Austen Chamberlain or the late Baron Ehrenfried Gtinther von Hunefeld arrived in Manhattan last week on the S.S. Bremen. It came securely fixed in the eye of German Tenor Richard Tauber who, to perfect the scene, carried a pet dachshund under each arm, Fritzi & Mitzi...