Word: cocker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady and the Tramp (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) draws a bead on the susceptible hearts of some 20 million U.S. dog lovers with a 75-minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
...everywhere, and Detroit newspapers never mention his present address. Last September Reuther moved to a converted summer cottage on a trout stream near Detroit, where he lives with his wife, daughters Linda Ann, 12, and Elisabeth Luise, 7, two lambs, two kittens, one horse, one German shepherd, one cocker spaniel, one sheep, one parakeet and one goldfish...
...would soon see where I live and what my home is like. You would walk down the country road looking for my house. Before you got there, you would probably say, 'That must be Green Hedges, Enid Blyton's house, because look-there's a black cocker spaniel sitting at the front gate.' You would be right." Parp! Parp! Last week, at the Stoll Theater, Noddy and his friends went through a typical Noddy plot. As the curtain opens, Noddy is peacefully driving his Toyland Taxi ("Parp parp! Parp parp!"), when all of a sudden...
...ever achieve the stature of an Alice or a Peter Pan? Most adults are apt to niddy nod at the idea. But anyhow, he will obviously be around for a while. Enid Blyton has just had her ninth Noddy novel published, and from her tidy house with its black cocker spaniel sitting at the gate, there is no telling how many more words will come. "Once I get started," says she blithely, "I've just got to go on and on. Oh, I love...
...skulls are about 6 inches long and 2½ inches wide, with both reptile and mammal features. It will take years of finicky work with delicate tools to separate the bones from the rock, but already Lewis can describe the animal roughly. It was about as big as a cocker spaniel, with a long, heavy tail. Lewis does not know yet whether it had hair or scales, whether it laid eggs or bore its young alive, or how it made its living. When he has completed his work, he hopes to know all these things about...