Word: bulldoggedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson and the Bert Lahr baritone helping things out. "Arrest Bulldog Drummond" is a satisfactory companion piece...
...happened when heavy weather struck the venturesome Nova Scotian three-master Fieldwood, bound from Hawkesbury, N. S. for Barbados. Two days out the pumps broke down. Water poured in through the racked hull to disable auxiliary engine and radio. Soon the captain, his crew of six and their mascot bulldog, Yummie, were marooned on the deck of the water-logged ship...
...three periods on Saturday, as 62,000 braved the elements, and countless thousands listened by the fireside, rain, that great leveler of unequal teams, made an underdog Bulldog into a very stubborn mutt indeed. Up to the middle of that last canto, the Elis, led by their great Sophomore quarterback, Ray Anderson, had piled up eight first downs, while the Crimson cohorts had been able to negotiate only three...
...Bulldog Drummond In Africa" is a routine detective thriller useful only as a foil for the main feature...
...last ten years the $1,200,000,000-a-year advertising industry has been trying to decide whether it should treat "consumer education" as a flea in its ear or a bulldog at its throat. Some 29,000,000 Americans, it is estimated, are now affiliated with organizations which sponsor lectures, leaflets and confidential reports appraising if not attacking the advertised claims of every kind of branded product from mouthwash to maple syrup. Most of these are counted in such big, general groups as the Federal Council of Churches (24,000,000), General Federation of Women's Clubs...