Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dingy corner behind the Hotel de Ville, where they sleep huddled together with a flea-ridden dog, a clochard and his wife were equally insulted by the notion that they are redeemable. "It may be all right for the likes of you," said the woman, "but we don't like washing. When it gets too cold here, my husband insults a gendarme and he takes us to the police station for the night. But that's all right -they don't make you wash." A famed Parisian clochard is white-bearded...
...runner in Wall Street, an odd-jobs man in a 5 & 10? store. At the age of 22 he served 30 months in jail for attempted grand larceny, and at 27 he got into more serious trouble. In August 1940, police arrested him as he was walking his dog outside his Brooklyn home, and hauled him off to the station. Not until much later was Hoffner told that a bartender had been shot dead in a restaurant holdup in Jamaica, eleven miles from where Hoffner had been at the time, and that a waiter had picked out his picture from...
...Denver (pop. 480,000 humans) people are divided: some like Denver's dogs (pop. 36,000) on the loose and some like them on leashes. Until recently, the city council avoided a leash law. This year, with 654 dogbites reported by May, the issue went on the ballot. No other civic problem worked up so much sentiment and spleen. "Dogs that are tied up and fenced continuously will become excited and grieved," warned grieved, excited Attorney Philip Rossman, the Denver dog's best friend. "On behalf of Rusty, my old Irish setter," the Denver Post's veteran...
Jack Frank, an anti-dog man, replied in a Post column: "Should the law pass, [doglovers] say, thousands of dogs, all named 'Rusty,' will develop cardiac conditions and die brokenhearted . . . The insidious dog propaganda machine . . . would make you believe any man who has a reverent dislike for dogs is a rotter who would water his children's milk to cut down on his overhead. Why should a dog with whom I have nothing in common . . . be given the right to bound over me and lick my face? Why should I walk along a darkened street with...
...politicians gave tongue on the issue, but City Council Candidate Frank Gold came out flatly for dogs and against leashes. "I am not afraid," said Gold boldly. At the election he was defeated, and the leash law was passed by a solid majority, 55,013 to 39,917. Last week, adding impost to injury, the Denver Health Department proposed a tax on pet food to pay for the law's enforcement. Mayor Quigg Newton quickly killed the idea, but bristling dog owners held a protest meeting to plan repeal of the leash law at the August city election...