Word: cur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier to admire than imitate...
...wistful little cur with a happy wag to his tail wandered into the Albany, N. Y. post office and made himself at home. Amused clerks promptly adopted him, named him Owney, fed him from their own lunches, let him sleep on mail sacks. Feeling safe wherever there was mail, Owney took to climbing onto trains with it and traveling off to other cities, always returning, however, to Albany. The Albany clerks eventually bought him a collar, stamped on it a request that post office clerks elsewhere attach to it the names of the offices Owney visited. When the collar became...
John's companions were dogs-scads of them, all the imaginable cur-mixtures. In summer he would come into Pawhuska-Osage capital- choose a sunny spot at a principal intersection and curl up on the sidewalk to sleep, a heavy blanket keeping off flies and scorching sunrays. His dogs would curl up about him to doze or to snarl and snap at passersby. Once, the city dog-catcher captured his pets and shot them. John disappeared for a few weeks, then returned to town with more dogs than ever...
...Brockport, N. Y., Maxwell Breeze, 14, was drowned July 4 as he swam in the Erie Canal. Friends insisted that a cur (Airedale+wolfhound) named Idaho had climbed Breeze's back, forced him under. Ten days later Daniel Houghton, 21, said Idaho had nearly drowned him in the same manner. Straightway he took the case to court, demanded Idaho's death. A storm of controversy blew up & down the land. Dimes and quarters were sent for Idaho's defense. Hired with the money, Harry Sessions, Rochester attorney, pleaded the dog's youthful playfulness. As crowds cheered...