Word: petting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon, with the help of a friend named Russell Sharp, W.P. had devised a book that seemed to be the answer. Inexpensively bound in brown paper, it was a workbook filled with simple sentences from Dickens and Longfellow as well as phrases about Sharp's pet dog Fogy. "I didn't know anything about copyright in those days," says W.P., "so I just printed in each of the books 'copyright applied for.' " Then, he began selling...
Last week, on the eve of getting his medal, Simon took cold, a day later died. In a dark wood coffin draped with the Union Jack, he was buried in a pet cemetery at Ilford, Essex. A wooden marker at his head bore the epitaph: "In Honored Memory of Simon...
...Pet Interest...
...Most of us have some pet interest we're concentrating on," comments Donald J. Gonzales, United Press diplomatic reporter. "With me it's international relations, political and economic." Gonzales finds time for six courses, ranging from "Russia and the West" to elementary French...
...into the act. Most of them had been too busy hunting all these years to read novels; they did not know much about the book's antihunting message or its sad ending in which the rapacious foxhounds chew up the heroine as she tries to save her pet fox from wicked hunters (one of whom had callously seduced her in an earlier chapter...