Word: dobbin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dobbin Succumbs. Young Ernie, nicknamed "Shag" for his pinkish, shaggy hair, was a born listener. Too small and bashful to play much with the other kids, he liked to sit around and hear the grown ups talk. What he heard he remembered...
...that came to the Pyle house. And he had a solid respect for facts. As a schoolboy, assigned to write a composition about a visit to the county courthouse, he reported; "Many interesting statistics were brought out in the examination of the assessment sheets. It was found that Old Dobbin has completely succumbed to the invasion of the automobile. The total value of horses listed in the county is $297,096, while that of automobiles is $398,322. The average horse is worth a fraction less than $72 and the average auto is slightly above $330. Dobbin still...
...report that the horses stabled near the Stadium are soon to be "liquidated has engendered a good deal of anticipation and watchfulness on the part of the Cowie gastronomes. Perhaps current OWI publicity will break down their traditional resistance to Dobbin as a victual. It's significant to note, however, that the Provisions course does not indicate the quantity of hoss meat to be stowed for an indefinite cruise, for 100 men, implying that this commodity still lacks official Navy sanction...
Since the death of its first rector, Rev. James Dobbin, Episcopalian Shattuck has been chiefly headed by laymen. Last week, to replace retired Headmaster James S. ("The Bull") Guernsey, Shattuck inducted a clergyman. He was Rev. Donald G. Henning, 33, pipe-smoking, resonant rector of Christ Church, St. Paul. Not an Old Shad but a Toledo-bred onetime Roman Catholic, Shattuck's new head helped work his way through Kenyon College by fiddling in a band, cut his missionary teeth in South Dakota's Rose bud Indian Reservation, where he had four white communicants on his 110-mile...
...Edsel Ford. The ballet was written-it has songs and dialogue-by Edward Mabley of the Teague organization, who never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often...