Word: petting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Socialists put in a determined plea for the pet project of capital levy. After considerable discussion a Socialist amendment supporting the levy was defeated 340 to 210. A vote was then taken on M. Caillaux's bill as a whole and was passed 330 to 40 votes, the Socialists abstaining...
...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...
...longer be responsible for any debts which my wife may contract. Signed, John Doe." The House of Lords might very well have taken one of these notices for a text--it would have been more dignified than the description of woman's legal status as that of a "pet monkey". However true it may be, in or out of law, it should never have been given such official sanction. Much better to have said pet parrot, or any other innocuous animal...
...Chester Noyes Greenough" can stay, proctors in Standish Hall decided recently. Chester is a marmoset--one of the monkey family, and the pet of the Freshmen. But Chester's cousin, J. Leslie Hotson McGrew, a ring-tailed monkey, who was less fortunate, was banished some time...
MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...