Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are still many hostelries with a stated "no pet" policy. But on the whole, admits one Copenhagen hotel manager, "dogs are good guests and easy to please. They don't polish their shoes on the bedclothes or steal our expensive ashtrays." A Paris hotelier agrees: "I gladly accept pets," he says, "but not American children. They are too destructive...
Parsley Nosegay. Another pet peeve of Villard's is the widely held picture of professional diplomats as a "striped: pants brigade of effete creatures." Instead of striped pants, today's diplomat wears three-button business suits. Instead of scintillating soirees, he attends paralyzing parties where his innards are assailed by "searing sauces and alcoholic depth bombs." Many is the career man, says Villard, who echoes the plaint of the late French diplomat Jules Henri after a ten-year tour in Washington: "I drank, God help my digestion, 35,000 cocktails in line of duty...
...couple of nights after her Emmy award for My Name is Barbra, her first and only starring appearance on television, Funny Girl Barbra Streisand, 23, was puttering around with her pet poodle backstage at Broadway's Winter Garden, when who should drop by but the New York Jets' $400,000 bonus-baby Quarterback Joe Namath, 22, unfresh from what he hoped would be his one and only appearance for the U.S. Army. Waiting the word on whether his gimpy right leg had passed an Army draft physical, Joe clowned with his shades and the poodle. Barbra smiled...
...true that Mrs. Jack Gardner customarily perched in the branches of a potted mimosa tree to receive her guests, or that she kept a pride of pet lions in her basement. But it is true that she paraded in elegant furs walking a lion on a leash, did Lenten penance by scrubbing the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent, and attended a concert in Symphony Hall wearing a headband emblazoned: "Oh you Red Sox." It is also true that she ardently supported the Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum...
...that the Government should be prohibited from selling its surplus stocks at less than 125% of the support price, allowing the market price to rise above the support level. The Bureau even faults the new cropland retirement plan, though that has long been one of the organization's pet schemes for whittling down surpluses. "It can't possibly work satisfactorily," Shuman believes...