Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frederika organized and personally supervised every detail of The Queen's Fund, a vast charity whose original object was to find food and shelter for the thousands of homeless children wandering lost in her land. Her impassioned pleas for her pet causes seldom fell on deaf ears. "If you could have a vote taken at this minute," said Wisconsin's Senator Wiley after hearing Frederika talk at dinner one night, "you would get the American aid to Greece doubled...
Revolutionary Abroad. Carnation's milk route already covers 115 countries, but Stuart is hustling to capture a bigger share of the world milk market. General Milk Co., a Carnation affiliate in which its competitor, Pet Milk Co., has a 35% interest, recently opened its second plant in Germany and will shortly open others in France and Holland, and possibly Brazil and Spain...
Kennel Show. In Kansas City, Mo., after the Star mistakenly published his reward offer of $1,500 (instead of $15) for the return of his pet pointer Queenie, William C. Boosman was compelled to inspect some 500 dogs of all descriptions, finally in desperation rushed out and found Queenie himself...
Bland, boyish and 42, Bacon lives in London, vacations in Riviera gambling halls. Among his pet subjects in the past were visceral creatures squatting on table tops, elephants in the veldt, misty male nudes and bloody-fanged dogs, all glazed with horror. Critical reaction to Bacon's art has been a rather alarmed "Splendid!" Wrote London Critic Eric Newton: "Mr. Bacon contrives to be both unforgettable and repellent . . . [This] requires genius -an unhappy, desperate kind of genius...
...with an enthusiasm for which I offer no apology. After visiting Russia in 1932, I wrote a series of articles (published in book form as The Tragedy of Russia) which described the Soviet system as a tragic betrayal of the ideals of our youth. I have been a pet peeve of the Communists ever since...