Word: dalmatian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bornard, Man does not yet know the dog however, for two of his most outworn similes directly contradict each other: "as devoted as a dog" and "as treacherous as a dog." Knowledge can scarcely be said to exist where one finds such a contradiction, and the Dachshund or the Dalmatian, the Great, Dane, or the Alsatian, may well wag their respective tails...
...bread and ham & eggs, his frail-looking, sad-eyed 22-year-old daughter is usually called "Miss Mary." She rises at 5, spends the morning at the track, goes to the races in the afternoon, to bed at 9. She owns three dogs: cocker spaniel, pointer and Dalmatian. She wants to stud)' aviation, has never ridden in the show-ring or to hounds. This summer she expects officially to train her own horses, Captain Argo and Terrific. Last week in Columbia. S. C. she said modestly: "I have a few horses which can run fast. If they escape illness...
Typical of the country's reaction was that of a Roman Catholic priest named Anton Koroshetz. As leader of the Slovenian People's Party Father Koroshetz has been interned on a Dalmatian island for almost two years. Last week he begged and obtained permission to go to Split "to say a prayer and drop a tear on the coffin of my king...
Lockhart's story of Dalmatian intrigue is as worth reading as the average movie is worth seeing. Yet this reviewer is inclined to think that Bruce Lockhart wrote his "Return from Glory" with one eye on the link-well and the other on the publisher's check...
...sisters for 19 years. Aside from occasional letters to his family, he had long lost all touch with his native Slovene tongue. He was bringing his U. S. wife to see the old folks. He thought of himself as completely "Americanized." But almost at the first sight of the Dalmatian coast his forgotten language came back with a rush. In Trieste a Slovene official bade him a ceremonious welcome home, showed him newspapers bursting with his praises. In Jugoslavia, especially in his little native province of Carniola, Adamic was almost a national hero. Puzzled at first, he sensibly decided...