Word: dog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems, too. One day a little dog was held up to tell him what it wanted in its stocking. The dog, evidently not understanding the Santa Claus principle, took a firm hold with his teeth on Heath's beard and started growling ferociously...
Geddes found the 500-room hotel, with its swimming pool, junior-size golf course and famed Cocoanut Grove cabaret, completely lacking in "coherence and good taste." The hotel's circular marquee looked to him like one of the "30 or 40 hot-dog stands in the immediate area." As for the Cocoanut Grove, "you don't have to have drab palm trees . . . Does the Pump Room have a pump...
...touring through Mexico with a doctor and slept one night at a stone mansion. She was dead tired but couln't fall asleep all night long, because she kept hearing a scratching noise in the room. She thought it was her dog, but it wasn't. The dog had been with the doctor all night...
...character of Ulysses, played by Jerry Kilty, is more ambiguous. His chief function is pulling the decadent Greeks back together and rousing Achilles from his lethargy. But this is not all--he always seems to have a deeper design. Although Thersites later calls him a "dog-fox," the addition of this slyness is only dramatically confusing. Otherwise, Kilty fulfilled the requirements for the predominant, dynamic, and unifying force...
From somewhere in Middle Europe came a fable that might have been lifted from the unpublished works of Aesop the Slave. A tiny rabbit was running out of the Soviet Union as though his life depended on it. He was stopped close to the border by a tired old dog who asked what all the excitement was about. "Haven't you heard?" panted the rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They...