I figured perhaps there was a petting party and the man didn't want to be disturbed."

"Kids used to pull in here for petting parties," Johanson said.

Sergeant Hallinen: "Do you think they might have had a petting party?"

That isn't traveled much, but the prowl car takes a slant down it now and then looking for petting parties."

Petting Parties, where petting ("making out" or foreplay) was the main attraction, became popular.

Now, it's read books, fence with four-syllable words, psychoanalyze each other until you can't tell a petting party from a civil-service exam.

You came along and talked her out of it because you wanted her to come down here to Summerville on a week-end petting party."

Definitions under pet end with "Petting Party (coll.)

Koch wrote his letter in response to an article in the Daily Illini criticizing campus heavy petting parties.

Marks' novels were based on his students, the 'flaming youth in rebellion' of the twenties, who danced to wild jazz, drank from silver flasks, and had petting parties.

The ground for Valentino had been prepared in the preceding decade - with bobbed hair and rising hemlines, dance crazes and petting parties, campaigns for birth control and woman suffrage.

Q Could it have been possible that, because of the appearance that you have just described her as being in, the clothing, that they could have just come from a petting party somewhere?

The Petting Party The top issues are the foreign-policy "pop quiz" given to George W. Bush by a television journalist and the ridiculousness of Naomi Wolf advising Al Gore.

In the 1950s, LIFE magazine depicted petting parties as "that famed and shocking institution of the '20s", and commenting on the Kinsey Report, said that they have been "very much with us ever since."

And then bolder ones will come along who will go further, to peeping and showing - and soon we shall have accepted in the technique of analysis the whole repertoire of demi-viergerie and petting parties'.

Zelda's husband provided support, defending unfaithful flappers in articles like "Why Blame It on the Poor Kiss if the Girl Veteran of Many Petting Parties Is Prone to Affairs After Marriage?"

Yesterday, I was playing with it, transferring a section of my own brain onto a magnetized tape-for a permanent record, you know-and found out that above certain rather low voltages it becomes a form of torture that would make the best efforts of the old Inquisition seem like a petting party."