Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security, thrives on honesty so it is natural to assume that she once was in love with him; but there is never any hint of this. Husband number two, attentive and mild-mannered, is a model of stability; but quite inexplicably, he maliciously slays his step-child's pet duck...
...sack-shaped moneybags Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, 51, six months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy (a "grey-haired old wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died (1934) won $154,971 as his legal widow, later was married and divorced three times...
...hatchetman" of the Republican Party (Clement); "the chief function of the Vice President should not be that of a political sharpshooter for his party. It should not be that of providing the smear under the protection of the President's smile" (Candidate Estes Ke-fauver); "the White House pet midget, Moby Dick Nixon and his whale † of a pup, Checkers" (Kerr...
Slacks That Slack. There was a long list of pet peeves: the big "buckety-baskety hats," "slacks that are too slack in the rear," sheath skirts "that make it so awkward to get in or out of taxis," dresses with petticoats that wilt after the first washing, the "no-ironing" synthetic fabrics that do need ironing, white collars and cuffs that are not detachable, the store that advertises a dress on Sunday and is "out of it" on Monday...
...biographers (husband-and-wife team of Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, who have also done Gauguin and Van Gogh) have sketched a watercolor rather than a lithograph. But they are at pains to correct the legend fixed in the moviegoing imagination by Actor José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge of pet and amateur pimp to the madams and sporting types of Montmartre. Dwarfed Henri was not a refugee from a name-proud sporting family; he was indeed a proud son of the house of Toulouse, determined to carry his family name into the only field his deformities of mind and body...