Word: petted
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...such dependence on the parental dictum was not the product of a virgin mind. The man who toys each day with pet lions must receive the credit. Surely it is time for him to outrival the poetry of D'Annunxio with a treatise on eugenics. The glory that was Garibaldt learned a thing or two in Brooklyn. Let Italy now return her national debt in kind. Let the Duce take the flower of our American girlhood: Mr. Ziegfield has had his turn...
...with money, as the furnace kept it supplied with heat. He did not realize his helplessness until one day he was suspected of murder. His wife lied to detectives and upbraided him cruelly. All she was worrying about was notoriety. Mr. Craig abruptly recognized her unhappy egotism, smashed her pet mantel ornament in the fireplace, and walked firmly out of her life...
Creators of comic strips have done much with the Sunday Night idea; what could be better material? Papa in his stocking feet; Mama in a temper; horrible noises rising around from huge-mouthed canary birds, thrown vases, dying pet; "Awk," "Tweet-Tweet," "Glub-Glub," "Plunk," "Zowie...
...facts are that, on the morning of the day in question, an unknown caddy handed to Mr. Wm. Serrick a note written on one of our sending newspaper special blanks. This note read: "Ma died at eight o'clock this morning. Line." Line is the pet name of Lincoln Serrick, a younger brother of the addressee...
...Vanderphant. Also Aunt Teresa's daughter, Sylvia Ninon Therese Anastathia -long legs, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, guileless, 16, attending convent. She reads "Questions and Answers" in the Daily Mail. Georges quotes her the poets, plays Tristan and Isolde on the piano. They kiss a little and call pet names...