Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urbane, witty Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux, playwright and novelist, is always irritated to be called a propagandist. He insists he is simply the chief of the French Commissariat General de I'Information. Another pet annoyance is to be told that France and Britain are fighting a "phony war," and last week, in a speech of high literary quality before the American Club in Paris, M. Giraudoux set about to correct any such notions held by transatlantic strategists...
...made money every year. Though Sperry led in gyroscopic instruments, and Pioneer continued to make most of the magnetic compasses, engine gauges, accelerometers, etc.. Kollsman's pet patented altimeter soon copped nearly all of the altimeter market. He made many another fine dashboard instrument besides. Wall Street houses heard of him, urged that he issue stock to finance expansion. Shy Bachelor Paul Kollsman declined, continued to pile earnings back into the company...
...farmers & wives dressed in their Sunday best, drove in to Iowa City's Courthouse to hear the finals in a county declamation contest. Schoolmarm Campbell was there, too. So was laughing-eyed little Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...
...Germany's best pilots" following their refusal to fly for fear their planes had been sabotaged or because there were not enough Messerschmitts fighters to escort them on bombing missions. One mutiny was said to have occurred among three squadrons of Field Marshal Göring's pet "Swallows of Death" wing stationed at Magdeburg, who were ordered to intercept Britain's leaflet raiders. Another mutiny was located in the reconnaissance groups at Kaiserslautern, where seven squadrons balked. They, apparently, did not relish the receptions the French in their Curtisses had been extending. This week the French...
Pension played his best game of the year in holding the Princeton forward to two goals. One of these was scored by Bud Robie, the Tiger right outside, all-American last year and brother of Ted Robie, former Harvard star after a spectacular triple pass from Bob Goheen to Pet Powell to Robie. The other came on a boot by Goheen, inside left, who took a pass from Ted Richardson...