Word: petted
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...Grand Rapids, Mich.. thieves stole Jacob Popowicz's pet rabbit, returned another night and took his silverware. Third time they came Jacob Popowicz had prepared for them. He left them, and they seized a hive of bees...
...enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote unless G. O. P. leaders promised to relax the "gag rule" of debate and allow floor votes on pet insurgent measures. Even long-legged, grinning John Quillin Tilson, last year's Republican floor leader and now a -candidate for the G. O. P. Speakership, began to talk about "co- operation" between the parties in the next House "for the good of the country." The final result, however, depended...
...securities than anyone else: bush-bearded Arthur Curtiss James. Last week, however, Investor James cast worry from his mind, entered the festive spirit that surrounds an oldtime tradition?the driving- of-the-golden-spike.* With a few blows he drove the spike into a specially-prepared tie. linked his pet road, the Western Pacific, to the Great Northern system...
...monocle as well known abroad as that worn by Sir Austen Chamberlain or the late Baron Ehrenfried Gtinther von Hunefeld arrived in Manhattan last week on the S.S. Bremen. It came securely fixed in the eye of German Tenor Richard Tauber who, to perfect the scene, carried a pet dachshund under each arm, Fritzi & Mitzi...
...professor of business administration at Columbia since 1916. Like his venerable predecessor, he is a tax-expert, an adviser to governments and states. The Federal Government, Canada, Porto Rico, New Mexico, have sought his aid. New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Dr. Haig chairman of his pet project, the St. Lawrence Power Development Commission, made him executive secretary and research director of the New York State Commission for the Revision of Tax Laws...