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Some of the bunch were consciously ambitious, felt themselves capable of big things; all of them were determined to do better for themselves than their parents had. Their tastes soon began to differentiate them. Runt Plotkin, toughest of the crowd, embarrassed them by his actions with girls, which spoke louder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jews in Chicago | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

They had just had to leave one job in a hurry because Lennie's passion for petting things had been misunderstood by a frightened little girl. On the new ranch everything went all right at first. Lennie was a terrific worker, did beautifully as long as George was at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man's Dream | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

As voyagers grew more & more at home, they liked especially the easy gradient of the outside deck stairways ("Easiest to climb on any ship"); the typically British kindness to animals in the ship's dog house where a fatherly sailor seemed busy all day petting, stroking, brushing; and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stateliest Ship | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Of course the drama of Shakespeare affords limitless possibilities for the new medium, if it only be treated with a little dignity, but Herr Reinhardt's work is a climax of obscenity. The four lovers fill their sequences with hugging and mugging--a procedure which may fit in with "Petting...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1935 | See Source »

Most cries of approval seemed to come from women, most cries of shame from men. "Petting," boomed an unidentified bass, "is cruelty to man."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholars on Sex | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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