Word: borzoi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Gillette, the theater's late great Sherlock Holmes, was presumably at ease about the overwhelming stone castle and miniature railway he left on his hilltop estate at Hadlyme, Conn. The borzoi-faced star had been the live-steaming engineer on his three-mile Connecticut Nutmeg & Great Western, whipped his friends wildly about in its little observation cars. When he died in 1937 at the age of 71, he declared in his will: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind...
...Royal Irish, who had gone to the finals last year. Thus, when the six group winners padded into the ring for final judging, two favorites were missing. The group finalists included an English sheepdog, an English springer spaniel, an English-bred West Highland white terrier, a silver-grey borzoi (Russian wolfhound), a black poodle, a brown Pomeranian. The two dogs that commanded the fanciers' attention were the Old English sheepdog, Ch. Merriedip Master Pantaloons, the gallery favorite, and the West Highland white terrier, Ch. Wolvey Pattern of Edgerstoune...