Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beagle hound is a friendly, flop-eared little dog with a tail that wags with the furious regularity of a revving propeller. As the "harrier," he was bred in England and Wales at least 600 years ago to hunt small game; today he is equally at home on heath or hearth, looks like a slightly bowlegged, apartment-size (13-15 in. high) foxhound. Last week, as a reward for his amiable ways, the beagle was acclaimed No.1 U.S. purebred dog by the American Kennel Club. With a population of 45,398 registered A.K.C., the beagle nosed the friendly, flop-eared...
...necessity, the A.K.C. overlooked lesser breeds without the law: still top dog and alltime U.S. favorite (with a population of about 20 million) is the plain dog, the all-American mutt...
...Chicago, where the White Sox are talking of beating the New York Yankees for the 1954 American League pennant, the management is thoughtfully installing devices to keep the paying customers right up to date: television sets at the hot dog stands, radios in the rest rooms...
...Second Tree from the Corner, a sampling of his New Yorker pieces, is "a dog's breakfast," according to White-short stories, parodies, poems, essays, table talk-some of it funny, some of it scary, almost none of it dull...
...noisseurs of good reading everywhere"), sloppy diction ("what one weather prophet on the radio calls 'inner mitten' showers"), "personalized" writing ("As for us, we would as lief Simoniz our grandmother as personalize our writing"), usually blend good fun with good sense. Full of engaging tidbits, the "dog's breakfast" does not offer much to chew, but more than enough to tickle the taste buds...