Word: cocker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bronson Crass, of the New York Crasses, stands five feet, eight inches high. He has blue eyes, blond hair, a sister and cocker spaniel. His father's income is $8,000 a year and his mother is an active member of the Stepping Stone School...
...Cocker and Springer Spaniels make excellent dogs for pheasant. Rather than point game, most spaniels flush it, often leaping spectacularly into the air in an effort to catch birds on the wing. Waterfowl hunters occasionally use water spaniels, but generally take their choice of the three retrieving specialists: the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever or Chesapeake Bay Retriever...
...Albert Peasemarch, butler to Sir Raymond, who has "about as much brain as you could comfortably put in an aspirin bottle," but whose skill in giving her cocker spaniel an emetic awakens the love of Sir Raymond's sister Phoebe...
Polly Want a Cocker? In Akron, Hyman Friedman admitted in court that his dogs often run into a neighbor's backyard, but "only because my neighbor's parrot keeps whistling to them to come over...
Lowell spoke to the Class Day audience about his dead cocker spaniel, Phantom. "He was a good old dog," Lowell said, speaking softly, almost to himself. "He was better known around here than I was.... I guess he loved Harvard as much as I did, and he was about as useful...