Word: bulldogged
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Spenlove and Fraley had shipped together since they were young men; eventually Fraley became commander of the ship Spenlove engineered. Fraley, of the incoherent bulldog breed, needed a lot of help when it came to women. Fidus Achates Spenlove supplied it. But in spite of him, Fraley's long and serious affair with a Manhattan girl went up in smoke. Then the War took them to the Mediterranean. In Salonika Fraley acquired a pleasant French mistress, Theroigne, left her flat when he saw her younger sister Francine. Francine was beautiful but had an ungovernable temper; when Theroigne tried...
...court decision grew out of a long, bitter circulation fight between the Curtis-Martin Ledgers and Inquirer and Publisher J. David Stern's Record (TIME, May 5, 1930; Aug. 24). The Evening Ledger accused the Record (morning) of bringing its bulldog edition out before 7:30 a. m., cutting into late sales of the Ledger. Curtis-Martin Company refused to supply Ledgers and Inquirers to any newsboy who handled the Record. Backed by the Record, the newsboys formed a Newsboys Protective Association, got a court injunction compelling Curtis-Martin to cease its "discrimination...
...Yale" bulldog of the collection is Harry W. Lindsey's Maple Springs Laddy...
British police chiefs studied the annual report of bulldog-jawed Lord Byng of Vimy, commissioner of Metropolitan Police of London. Indictable criminal offenses rose from 17,664 in 1929 to 20,553 in 1930. London's murders increased from ten to 21 in the same period. * There was a marked increase in crimes of violence. Only last week three unidentified men held up the Clydesdale Bank, at Clydebank, near Glasgow, shot two tellers dead and escaped. Scotch police blamed "Americans...
Openly contemptuous, Sharkey had trained carelessly for the fight but he was careful in the ring. In the first round or two, he sparred cautiously down at little Walker, who strained up at him like a bulldog on its hind-legs at the end of a leash. Sharkey aimed long lefts at Walker's eyes, opened a cut over the left eye in the fifth round...