Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the foreign writers to whom HDC gave first American productions were Maeterlinck, Guitry, Galsworthy, Cocteau, and A. A. Milne. The club also went out of its way to produce unusual native plays like John Dos Passos' The Moon is a Gong in 1925 and Auden and Isherwood's Dog Beneath the Skin in 1936. During this time the HDC had no theater to work with, moving its productions all over the area from Sanders and Brattle Hall to Worcester's Horticultural Hall and the Boston Academy of Music. But perhaps the most unique setting was the hall...
...Dog Walker. They drove to a lonely spot in Kansas, and, said the confession, Bonnie Heady promised to get Bobby a hedge apple and took her boxer dog, Doc, for a stroll. Explained Mrs. Heady: "I did not want . . . to witness the actual murdering." Hall tried to strangle Bobby with a short piece of clothesline, failed, and then shot the child. Hall's face and hands were wet with blood when Mrs. Heady returned from her walk. She mopped him off with Kleenex. Then, with Bobby's body in the rear of her station wagon, they headed...
America's household cat and dog population has reached an alltime high of 49.3 million, the American Can Co. reported this week. The dog population is 22.6 million (v. 17 million when the last survey was made six years ago), and home-based cats number 26.7 million. Dogs are owned by 41% of all families and cats by 29%, but the average dog-owning family has only 1.34 dogs, while cat-owners average 2.21 cats to a family. (Not included in the census were waifs, strays and pets living in stores and factories.) This year, more than 1.5 billion...
Writing funny captions for the photographs must have been a tedious procedure, because very few of them are clever. A typical picture is one of a ragged little dog labeled Trixie, first and fiercest bulldog, supposedly demonstrating the dauntless spirit of the dogged Blue eleven. But the cut lines do the best with meager material, in a mock, curt, newspaper style...
Inside, 20,000 Harvard fans had just finished waving triumphant hand-kerchiefs, mimicking 45,000 Blues to the bottom of their cold seats. The Harvard Band, undefeated again, had just circled the inside of the Bowl, playing "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone...