Word: bashan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bashan, "a short-haired setter" with a broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been treated to an antique hero's chorus, a three-legged limping approach, an uncontrollable wailing and self-lamentation." Bashan pretends to be a mighty hunter before his lord, actually never kills any thing but field mice, though he thinks him self a ravening threat to rabbits. He once caught...
...Author. Thomas Mann, 55, is reputed Germany's most considerable liv ing novelist. In 1929 he won the Nobel Prize. He lives with his wife, six chil dren and Bashan in a villa on the outskirts of Munich. Other books: The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, Royal Highness, Children and Fools, Early Sorrow...