Word: petting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances...
...realizes that school and sex are not the only factors in a rounded education and gives us snapshots of all the casual acquaintances who have made a definite impression on the characters of most young people. There is a glimpse of church life, a more detailed portrait of the pet dog, a glance at high school athletics and a prolonged picture of family relationships. Whatever message the author may wish to present, it is largely contained in this latter description...
Though the Philharmonic directors had chosen a musician of outstanding ability, their announcement had instant and stormy repercussions. Some recalled the speech Herr Furtwängler made in Berlin four years ago when he referred to U. S. orchestras as "pet puppies which one keeps without inner necessity." Others pronounced him a slave to Nazidom, objected because he had been slow to protest when Jewish musicians were exiled from Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State...
...when Pavlova visited them in Hollywood in 1930, a few months before her death. Strangest shot was one taken by Dandré in Pavlova's garden in Hampstead which showed her in a simple gingham dress, stretched out on the flagstones beside a pool and talking to a pet swan. Dandre hid behind a bush to take the picture with a small sound camera, recorded his wife's curious, high-pitched voice as she called: "Come on, Jack, come Jacko, oh darling." Members of the audience who knew Pavlova regretted the intimate scene. The dancer allowed no intrusion...
Declared Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, social hygiene specialist: "If a child is old enough to ask questions, it is old enough to get an answer. ... A girl undoubtedly is more popular with boys if she pets; and we must remember that even a feeble-minded girl can pet; she may also become popular, for the boy need never find out she is feeble-minded...