Word: petting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tucked away in the alphabetical list of directors in agate type was the name, John D. Rockefeller III. Ignorant of one of the pet Rockefeller philanthropies, a superficial observer might wonder why a Rockefeller, a Herbert Lee Pratt (Standard Oil), a Henry Elliott Cooper (Equitable Trust Co.). should be interested in a comparatively puny bank whose capital was announced as $500,000, whose declared purpose was to serve Harlem's Negroes...
...cockpit. Men chirruped at him; they whistled; they called. And for the first time in his life Bob White heard sounds. Delighted he yelped answers. No congenital deafness was his. More delighted was Dr. Coward. He cherishes Bob White, finely bred grandson of President Coolidge's pet white collie...
...Pet Monkeys...
Parent, Saying Son Weeps for Pet, Sure Governor Had No Part in Action...
...Julesburg, Colo. ... It was named for Old Man Jules, who lost his life and a pair of ears when he inadvertently fired two barrels full of bird shot into Jack Slade, one of the Old West's pet desperadoes...