Word: dog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spinet; two Harley-Davidson motorcycles; a $1,500 silver service; a $250 brass fireplace set; a $500 pair of hand-tooled cowboy boots; two pedigreed great Dane puppies ("I do hope we can find them a good home in the country"); a year's supply of dog food...
...people in them, those red-brick apartments along the Charles aren't much different. Adams House has a pool, and Eliot House has a basement snack-bar, but a Leverett House man is a man who wouldn't sell his soul for an afternoon plunge or a hot-dog with relish...
...Mohammedan legend has it, Jesus was walking in the bazaar with His disciples one day when they came upon the body of a dead dog. "How it stinks!" blurted one disciple. Said another: "Look at the buzzards wheeling overhead." But Jesus looked and said, "How whiter than any pearls are the teeth...
...Carolina Mountains. But the association never quite comes off. For one thing, young Jarman is uncomfortably overgrown and incurably quaint, and he is pictured as a ninny. Perhaps the only character to live up to expectations is the general storekeeper (Percy Kilbride). Lassie also makes the best of a dog's life...
Arrowsmith Adverse. Aaron's father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...