Word: bulldogging
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...exhibition that belatedly introduced Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Rouault, Braque and Picasso to the U.S. public-Manhattan's Armory Show in 1913 -also inspired a young U.S. artist named Stuart Davis to change his ways. Today Stuart Davis, who looks somewhat like a shy bulldog, is among the few painters to translate Paris abstractionism into a jazzy U.S. idiom...
Wall Street long ago got acclimated to the oratorical williwaws blowing north from Congress. But last week, even Wall Streeters' tough ears tingled. Oklahoma's bulldog-jawed Democrat Lyle Boren, head of a sub-committee probing the Holding Company Act, had unearthed an amazing "conspiracy" on the part of some of Wall Street's staidest investment bankers and financiers. The plot, said he, was to socialize the $18 billion U.S. electric utility industry and make "many billions" in the process...
Aside from four (4) regrettably rousing renditions of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow-Wow-Wow, E-Li Yale," "Roughly Speaking" is a tasteful bit of expert light comedy. It may have a Boolah Boolah backdrop for nearly one complete real, but in the hands of Rosalind Russell and Director Mike Curtiz it also has gay nonchalance and a touch of Americana in the reminiscent style of "Our Hearts Were Young...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had twice been at the top of the Wehrmacht command ladder in the west, went down again last week-and this time probably out. His successor: bulldog-faced Field Marshal Albert Kesselring...
Winston Churchill growled like an angry bulldog when Laborite M.P. Richard Stokes accused him of lying to the House of Commons (in a flowery praising of British tanks), demanded that Stokes "repeat his exact words," appeared mollified when Stokes substituted for the word "lie" the Victorian phrase, "terminological inexactitude...