Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumor had seeped out that Handsome Dan H, Yale's mascot, had been kidnapped. A bulldog, clutched by two young men with caps pulled low over their eyes, had reportedly been seen in a Chrysler roadster that was speeding north toward Boston and Cambridge...
...certain whether the gentlemen of the Lampoon were responsible for temporarily borrowing the dog, and for smearing hamburger at the base of John Harvard's statue. But the morning after a 19 to 6 upset by Harvard the nation's press ran front page photos of Handsome Dan H licking John Harvard's feet...
...Handsome Dan VII (no relation), only nine months old but wrinkled and bowlegged for his age, now trots around at the heels of Herman Hickman. One of the gentlest dogs in New Haven, Dan only gets excited on Saturday afternoons when other strange animals invade the Bowl...
...Belleau Wood, Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, twice winner of the Medal of Honor* (Boxer Rebellion and Haiti), was reported to have said: "Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" But profane old Dan Daly [shaken by reports that the Corps was going to be politer] grimly insisted that what he said was: "For goodness sake, you chaps, let us advance against the foe!" ¶ Col. Frederic W. Wise (who claimed that during World War I he had originated the phrase: "Retreat, hell-we just got here!") once heard his men had coined a nickname...
...producers sensed the need for something extra to toss to the Technicolor camera, the picture rings in Dan Dailey, Harry James, Jeanne Grain, Reginald Gardiner and Victor Mature, all playing themselves in bit parts...