Word: dachshund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hounds (Afghans, basset hounds, beagles, dachshunds, foxhounds, etc.). Ch. White Rose of Boveway. a sleek greyhound belonging to Harry Twyford Peters, chairman of the show, last year reached the finals. But so keen was the competition among hounds last week, that Judge Joseph Z. Batten passed her over, picked a stubby beagle as best, a stubby dachshund as next best. He waved the dogs to winners stalls; the crowd clapped; friends congratulated the beagle's owner. Then Judge Batten thought better, put first the dachshund, Ch. Fox von Teckelhof, owned by Hugh O'Neill of Joplin...
...vacant lot in Eastchester, suburb about 16 miles from Manhattan, four handsome dogs-a white collie, a dachshund, a setter and a German shepherd ("police dog")-were at play one day fortnight ago. Up rolled a limousine and out stepped a lady who seemed to be fond of animals. She patted each friendly head, seemingly gave each dog something to eat from her handbag. Then the lady climbed back in the car, where her own sweatered Boston bull was yapping in excitement. The automobile rolled away and the four dogs continued to caper...
Soon the setter's plume drooped and he trotted slowly home. Police dog and collie also turned tail, as did the low-slung, swaybacked little dachshund. The setter's owner rushed him to a veterinarian, where he shortly died. Said the "vet": "Someone has given this dog cyanide of potassium...
Next day the police dog had also died, and when the dachshund and collie took sick, Eastchester people began to remember other recent dog deaths and disappearances. The police turned out to hunt for "75 dogs reported missing or poisoned within the past few months...
After lunch home and stretch out on the divan but Madame slays me with her heavy weights, which she drops upon me, defenseless, as I lie. So that I find no comfort, and rising, pick up the small brown Mermaid books that stand between my dachshund bookends. The title-page bears the legend, from Beaumont, "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine". The books are plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...