Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered a cut of 10% in tin for beer and pet-food cans, banned it in coffee and tobacco cans, in refrigerator trays, jewelry and other civilian items...
...variegated population of London piling into busses, trains, and other means of escape; we see a little boy who has forgotten to "go" before leaving the house; we see a kindly bus driver following regulations sternly and refusing to allow another little boy to take his pet chicken along with him; we see distraught mothers and aged grandmothers...
Occasionally, Author Paterson drives a weak narrative to the verge of collapse. An account of a heavyweight prizefighter whose devotion to a pet lion leads him to kill a man finds the author himself fighting out of his class and losing the decision on pointlessness. Too talky for his stories' good, Paterson packs small emotional wallop. But at his best he can tell a fresh tale with few frills and no assist from his analyst's corner...
...image of doctors muttering midnight incantations over the sufferings of mute beasts is ridiculous enough to make most non-Hearst readers laugh at the anti-vivisectionists. They should. Two years ago the anti-vivisectionists paraded a steady stream of pet-owners to the State House for hearings on the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...
While the men take their courses and careers seriously, ther is a certain amount of joking connected with the medical profession which grows more perverted with each succeeding year of study. In anatomy classes the cadavers--one to each four men--are sometimes tagged with pet names and often are fondly discussed in the midst of an otherwise normal social conversation. A favorite name for a corpse is "Ernest," so that a student can inform his friends that he is "working in dead Ernest...