Word: dalmatian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...
Shortly after, the new Yugoslav delegation was installed. Its chief, a towering Dalmatian Partisan captain, Jaksa Dubrovnik, stalked into the office of the Allied Advisory Council. Thumping his chest, he announced to U.S. Captain Steve Riggio his assumption of power, in the only three English words he knew: "Yugoslav delegation...
Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
...Ornito in Italy Sir Walter laboriously helped a badly wounded colonel, far bigger than himself, across a thousand yards of rocky ground under heavy fire to an aid station. At the islands of Solta, Mljet and Braĉ off the Dalmatian coast his "utter contempt for artillery and mortar fire had a very valuable and steadying effect and won for him the respect and devotion of the men of the Commandos" -as well it might. Heirless Sir Walter was old enough to be their grandfather...
Tito offered us hors d'oeuvres with caviar (a gift from the Russian mission), risotto with mushrooms, pumpkin pie, coffee, more Slivovic and Dalmatian red wine...