Word: bulldoggedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...removal was properly signalized by that proper British institution, the fourth editorial (known as the Light Leader) of the London Times. In its characteristic tone, half-bulldog, half-maiden aunt, the Light Leader thus saluted Eros' departure: "From this moment onwards nobody can doubt that there is a war on, for London is the hub of the universe, and Piccadilly Circus is the hub of London, and Eros is the hub of Piccadilly Circus. How then can the universe revolve, when its hub's hub's hub is missing? . . . Until Eros returns to his perch...
...victim Handsome Dan IV. English bulldog mascot of the Yale football team, rallied sharply late last night, and veterinarian Dr. S. Johnes gave the dog an even chance to pull through. Suffering from a serious paralysis of his posterior extremities, Dan was given slight hope in earlier dispatches from New Haven...
...mighty Clint Frank and predicted a better-than-average record for Ducky Pond's machine. The Elis went on to stagger through the most disastrous season in Yale annals, winning two out of eight games. Now the situation is reversed. With experts foretelling nothing but lean days for the Bulldog, there are few individuals in the vicinity of New Haven who give Yale a fifty-fifty chance of improving even on last year's performance...
...that Captain Bill Stack, at center, looks to be as good as any pivot man in the Ivy League. Flanking him are a pair of Junior guards, Cape Burnam and Jim Dern, both of whom won their letters last year. This trio leaves little to be desired, and Bulldog enemies should find it difficult to avance far on this sector...
...Canada's cleverest financial men, Colonel James Layton Ralston. A corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest...