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...dogs from the Belgian Congo which wash their faces with their paws, arch their backs when angry, chase lions and emit no sound but "groo," having lost their bark in centuries of silent jungle tracking. The two shows were alike, however, in having on their entry lists more cocker spaniels than any other breed...
...years, went to Washington in 1927 seeking a post in the State Department, got one in the Bureau of Investigation. He chased automobile thieves in Texas and worked in Cincinnati and Oklahoma City before the Dillinger case put him in headlines. Unmarried, he collects biographies, has a pet cocker spaniel, shoots and rides for recreation. He resigned from the Bureau of Investigation last year, organized the "Melvin Purvis Junior G-Man Corps" for Post Toasties because, he says, "the training of our youth has been sadly neglected." Now living in San Francisco, he has taken the California bar examination, moves...
President-elect Wriston married a gracious Vassarette named Ruth Colton Bigelow of Springfield, Mass., has a daughter at Oberlin, a son at Appleton High School. He also has a black cocker spaniel named Robin, a desk exactly like George Washington's, a sizable collection of phonograph records ranging from Gilbert& Sullivan to Bach. He invariably reads while shaving. He will turn up in Providence for the second semester...
Another world speed record was made last week by Major Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, inventor, president of the Seversky Aircraft Corp. Accompanied only by his cocker spaniel, Vodka, he sent a 710-h. p. amphibian of his own design over a Detroit racecourse at 230.03 m.p.h., some 39 m.p.h. faster than the old mark. Unlike Record-Breaker Hughes, Pilot Seversky was well satisfied with his new amphibian record. But like Designer Hughes, Designer Seversky began tinkering his plane, muttered: "It'll go faster...
Missing from the Treasury Building at Washington was Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s molasses-colored cocker spaniel "Timmie." On the theory that Timmie had been kidnapped, Mr. Morgenthau offered a $25 reward. On the theory, suggested by newshawks, that Timmie was in love, Mr. Morgenthau agreed to receive his bride. Next day a pair of policemen found Timmie alone near the Morgenthau home, returned...