Word: bulldogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fixed idea on the importance of aviation won him few friends among the top brass. To his seniors on the quarterdeck he was a baleful-looking, bulldog-stubborn revolutionist, a man to be viewed with suspicion...
...should fortify in every way our special and friendly connections with the United States." Bevin on Russia. Ernest Bevin had none of Churchill's solid polish; he was sometimes almost incoherent. But his meaning was as plain as a bulldog's face: "We will do nothing or allow any of our agents and diplomats to do anything to stir up hatred or to provoke or create a situation detrimental to Russia in the eastern countries. ... I am not a criminal if I want friendship with neighbors bordering on the British frontier. What am I doing wrong...
...exhibition that belatedly introduced Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Rouault, Braque and Picasso to the U.S. public-Manhattan's Armory Show in 1913 -also inspired a young U.S. artist named Stuart Davis to change his ways. Today Stuart Davis, who looks somewhat like a shy bulldog, is among the few painters to translate Paris abstractionism into a jazzy U.S. idiom...
...Central Europe. Prater Violet stems straight from Author Isherwood's knowledge of Hollywood, Continental Europe and Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind of setup...
Infernal Machine. Bulldog Pictures establishes Bergmann in an apartment...