Word: dachshund
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...press dispatch from Sioux Falls, S. Dak. relates the treatment accorded Hans, an innocent little American dachshund dog by some children,* because of the dog being of German descent, or rather because the breed was developed in Germany...
...dachshund was popularized by the American and English people, and regardless of the country of origin of the breed, the treatment of this dog brands the malefactors as unAmerican, unChristian, and a disgrace to the human race. I am a dachshund owner and I might further state that my dog is a better dog than any of us are men. He has never knowingly harmed anyone. I can't say that about any person. I trust the owners of Hans have sufficient money to see that he receives the care he needs...
...system. There is no law, declared Mr. Krueger, that we must wander for 40 years in the wilderness. "Many still cast their eyes backward and long for the 'good old days' when Capitalist industry still provided opportunity and an increased standard of living." Comparing back-lookers to dachshunds, he quoted: There was a little dachshund once So long he had no notion How long it took to notify His tail of his emotion And thus it was that while his eyes Were filled with woe and sadness His little tail kept wagging on Because of previous gladness. Nominated...
...Warren Wheelock was building himself a log cabin in the North Carolina mountains. He needed a pair of andirons. That was not too hard for a commercial artist who had designed glass ovenware, safety razors and compacts. He took two sticks of oak and whittled out a dachshund (for casting into iron). He liked his firedog so much that he kept on whittling, and by 1922 he was a full-fledged sculptor. On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized...
...brings back a hilarious travelogue of rivers "as loud as the finale of Götterdammerung," of flora that looked "as if the florists had thrown the end of a Hutton wedding down the back-stairs," of one Captain Vigoroux, famed in cigaret ads. Two tales, one about a dachshund, another about a Nazi dissenter who invented a seventh-class funeral, are not only funny but belong with the best satire yet written on dictators. In a story about a cobbler who belied the old proverb, Bemelmans combines entertainment for all members of the family...