Word: cocker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dame Rumor has noised it about of late that kind-hearted alumni are about' to send President Conant two cocker spaniels. Not that the new President is a dog fancier--nor that the desires to perpetuate the tradition of President Lowell's "Phantom," of sacred memory. But these alumni profess an interest in President Conant's physical well-being. They knew that when he worked in the laboratory he didn't bother much about exercise, but they feel that as President he should indulge in a daily constitutional. The spaniels would make him go walking, and incidentally survey the beauties...
Longest row of boxes was occupied by short-legged, lop-eared cocker spaniels, which topped this year's entry list with 161. Excellent gun dogs, they are steadily becoming more popular as pets. With all six finalists in the ring upstairs foreign-bred, a cocker named The Great My Own was last week named best U.S.-bred dog in the show. Not since 1922 has a U.S.-bred dog won best-in-show at Westminster...
Flush was a red cocker spaniel of good breeding whose puppyhood was passed in the pleasant English countryside near Reading. Before he was out of his doggy teens he had tasted the pleasures of love and was a father. Then his owner, Miss Mitford, gave him to her invalid friend, Elizabeth Barrett. In his new mistress's home, on London's genteel Wimpole Street, Flush passed into polite and celibate seclusion. Though not by nature a lapdog, Flush sacrificed his roaming instincts and became a devoted stay-at-home, never stirring from Miss Barrett's room except...
Quite as well known in and about the famous Harvard University section of Cambridge as many of its professors and instructors, possibly far better known to the public than many of them, was the little brown cocker spaniel "Phantom," the dog of President and Mrs. Lowell. This little dog for years was a visitor to our Hospital when any physical troubles seemed to threaten his good health. Quite unlike many of the visitors to our Hospital, President and Mrs. Lowell often would sit and wait their turn while certain other people were very impatient to have most immediate attention. Little...
Phantom, President Lowell's cocker spaniel, is dead. This familiar companion of President Lowell on his walks around Cambridge died at the age of sixteen. His passing was described last night...