Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
...Because Shepherd Dog Pat refused to answer when the President, his master, called, but would respond to the call of a White House policeman, Secretary Lawrence Richey last week gave orders that no policeman is to pet...
Legislative hobby: Committee drudgery on major economic problems (e.g.: railroad consolidations, motorbus regulation). His business experience makes him ultraconservative. His pet legislation has been a bill establishing a Textile Foundation, to study and advise the textile industry on the Wartime Textile Alliance's $1,300,000 fund derived from the sale to U. S. concerns of foreign and enemy dyestuffs. He stands stoutly against a U. S. Department of Education, U. S. maternity and infancy...
...began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company of disreputable characters known as 'Republicans'; he came home in bad moods and would banefully mutter, 'Raskobite' at your complainant and her friends; he no longer cared for and fed the pet donkey that was their comfort during their married life but brought into their happy home an elephant to which he devoted his entire time and attention. . . . He threatened to break your complainant up and destroy her forever. . . . A. BERKOWITZ Solicitor for the complainant." Though the Chancery Court clerk accepted...
...Father-&-Daughter saga unique in its annals. Their wealth is immense. The Chicago Tribune is the greatest money-maker among U. S. newspapers. The New York Daily News has the largest circulation in the U. S., makes other millions. But hardship makes the closest bonds. And Liberty, the Patterson pet, has found hard-going. Its advertising is slim. Just why this should be so, few can explain. In May 1924, Liberty was born. No magazine had ever been blessed with such a blast of birthday publicity or with more potent parentage. Within six months it had 600,000 readers. Advertisers...