Word: bloodhounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tales. It begins with a scene in which the Governor tells Bill Jesse: "By gatlings, we're going to make a new State out of Texas. You're built for the job. A born manhunter, that's what you are. . . . You have a scent like a bloodhound, and courage to match it. I bet you don't know what fear...
Ever since Austrian Nazis seized Vienna's ' Ballhaus and killed Chancellor Engelbert Dullfuss last year, towering, small-mouthed Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg has blamed the murder of his little friend morally on hollow-eyed Major Emil ("Bloodhound") Fey, who was caught by the Nazis with Dullfuss but did nothing to save him. Last week these two potent men tugged two ways at Austria, under the distracted Chancellorship of disheartened Kurt Schuschnigg...
Then past where lay the Porter and the friendly bloodhound into the night...
...parlance means a down-&-outer. But not every social outcast answers willingly to the name. Many a hobo is no bum but a journeyman worker, traveling cheaply from one seasonal occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates, may even be sociologists in search of statistics. Such a bloodhound in bum's clothing was Author Thomas Minehan. Disguising himself with apparently complete success, he spent two years' vacations traveling in boxcars, weekending in jungles, standing in mission breadlines, indefatigably taking notes. The result was the first book of its kind on the besprizorniye (wild children...
...responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel Howe and the muse who instills magnetism in TIME'S front covers are performing their respective tasks to my unlimited satisfaction and I am confident Bushman and Bloodhound are doing the best they know, each according to his light. As to the writer...