Word: bulldogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street long ago got acclimated to the oratorical williwaws blowing north from Congress. But last week, even Wall Streeters' tough ears tingled. Oklahoma's bulldog-jawed Democrat Lyle Boren, head of a sub-committee probing the Holding Company Act, had unearthed an amazing "conspiracy" on the part of some of Wall Street's staidest investment bankers and financiers. The plot, said he, was to socialize the $18 billion U.S. electric utility industry and make "many billions" in the process...
Aside from four (4) regrettably rousing renditions of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow-Wow-Wow, E-Li Yale," "Roughly Speaking" is a tasteful bit of expert light comedy. It may have a Boolah Boolah backdrop for nearly one complete real, but in the hands of Rosalind Russell and Director Mike Curtiz it also has gay nonchalance and a touch of Americana in the reminiscent style of "Our Hearts Were Young...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had twice been at the top of the Wehrmacht command ladder in the west, went down again last week-and this time probably out. His successor: bulldog-faced Field Marshal Albert Kesselring...
Winston Churchill growled like an angry bulldog when Laborite M.P. Richard Stokes accused him of lying to the House of Commons (in a flowery praising of British tanks), demanded that Stokes "repeat his exact words," appeared mollified when Stokes substituted for the word "lie" the Victorian phrase, "terminological inexactitude...
Winston Churchill's longtime bulldog faith in the solidarity of the British Empire was revealed in a 44-year-old wager made public by a Manhattan rare-book dealer, who had just purchased the sheet of paper on which Churchill had written out the terms of the bet. On Jan. 23, 1901, while on a lecture tour of the U.S., Churchill bet ?100 against Minneapolis Bibliophile James C. Young's assertion that "within ten years from this date the British Empire will . . . lose one quarter of India or of Canada or of Australia...