Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light for football, Sherman made the fencing team, was pronounced by the Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked a difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object...
Change the Rules. Then Miller trotted out some pet projects. One was to eliminate or reduce a double tax system under which a company's profits are taxed both by Argentina and by the U.S.; another was a new treaty of commerce and friendship that would reassure U.S. businessmen operating in Argentina against the fear of expropriation. Peron, never much at home in economics, called in his experts. They went over ways of increasing Argentine exports to the U.S., and agreed to shift the headquarters of the mixed U.S.Argentine trade commission from Washington to Buenos Aires. Although the Argentine...
...Duke of Windsor, wearing a checkered topcoat, stooped to pet a Cuban Chihuahua while visiting the battleship Texas at Houston. The dog bit the Duke. "I think it must have been the coat," said the victim. "It's a bit noisy, you know." Later the Duke and Duchess stole the show at New Orleans' Mardi gras, especially at the carnival when the Duke bowed low and the Duchess curtsied to the floor (see cut) before King Rex and his Queen...
...which they have never since recovered. This was the day when Mother knew best; there was no book, no scientific authority to shake her maternal self-con fidence . . . Her 'instincts' were right." She was not told when to feed the baby, nor was she told not to pet...
...kind of story to tear hearts-and sell newspapers. In Hempstead, L.I. last week, Harold Sheridan's dog was missing. After hunting in vain for his own pet at the pound, Sheridan offered to give another six-month-old puppy a home. Dogcatcher Jacob Roeper refused; he was going to put the dog to death by gas, and said that the law backed him up. Reader Sheridan asked for help from Long Island's lively tabloid Newsday, published by Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News (TIME...