Word: bulldogged
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Boris Shaposhnikov, 58, tough-faced and mild-mannered as a bulldog, planned the Finland strategies, which were lauded by most neutral observers and bungled in the field handling. He is the only Red officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...
...eleven years old. He was 26 when'he made himself manager of Featherweight Terry McGovern, who presently made himself world champion and made Sam moderately wealthy. Sam bought some race horses. The horses ran out of the money so often that Sam finally traded them for a bulldog: and concentrated on the theater for the rest of his life...
Died. Charles R. Apted, 67, mild-mannered, bespectacled head of Harvard "yard cops" for 39 years; in Cambridge, Mass. Protector of boys as well as property, he gently dissolved student "riots," bailed the too-high-spirited out of jail at unearthly hours, restored to Yale the Harvard-snatched bulldog, Handsome Dan, restored to Boston's State House the wooden "sacred cod," covered up for the culprits...
...Crimson Freshmen were swamped under a wave of 12 out of 15 firsts by the Bulldog pups, finally yielding 87 1/2 to 47 1/2 in the thirty-fourth dual track meeting of the two cinder squads Saturday afternoon at New Haven...
...Whirlaway and Our Boots met in the mile-and-an-eighth Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, at Lex ington, Ky. It was a holiday in horsy Lexington. Both Whirlaway and Boots were born within whinnying distance of Lexington's courthouse. Natives, who knew that Our Boots, by Bulldog out of Maid of Arches, comes from a family notable for speed rather than staying qualities, made Whirlaway the favorite...