Word: bulldogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey-eyed managing director of Missouri's Humane Society, walked into the garage, and with him an agent of the society, Foye Thompson. Three weeks before, Director Amundsen had received an anonymous telephone call, telling him that in this garage a caged cat was daily put before a bulldog to irritate it. Director Amundsen had investigated, learned the date of the dog fight. He and Agent Thompson, under false names, were fraternally received in the garage. The promoters then passed a hat "to heal the winner." About $9 was gathered...
George Horace Lorimer was editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to Dec. 31, 1936. He was a man who looked like a bulldog and he ran the Post from stem to stern, finally becoming president of the whole Curtis group (Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) when the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned in 1932. Last week's year-end board meeting seemed strange without Mr. Lorimer. It brought together at a dramatic moment the men (it took more than one man to succeed George Horace Lorimer) who twelve months ago took charge...
There was no substitute for Handsome Dan on Saturday and Yale ingenuity was unable to make one up. Ducky Pond isn't so keen on mascots anyway, getting mildly irascible during last year's Princeton game when a bulldog that looked remarkably like his own was aired in the Palmer Stadium before the Princeton ganie. It was learned that it belonged to Ed Leader, Yale's crew mentor, and, at that, the score was too close for any degree of comfort...
Bought in 1933 by the Class of 1937, then Freshmen, he was officially baptized Handsome Dan '11, being named after the first Yale bulldog of that name who expired in 1899. He was paid for by small change contributions. He was paraded once before the Yale stands in 1933 and everyone agreed that he was a very handsome, but Yale lost the game, and they lost it to Harvard...
...loss was attributed immediately to the appearance of the bulldog, but Ducky Pond, Yale's football coach, took him over and except for one trip away, has been the defender of Ducky's back-yard ever since...