Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foremost authority on religion, murder mysteries, and shaggy dog stories, Nock is a professor in the noble and vanishing tradition. He is brilliant, kind, and studiously eccentric...
...twenty years since life made its decision, Nock has lived almost exclusively at Eliot House. "They knew I was going to occupy this room," Nock says, "so the shelving was all put in. I used to wander with Mr. Lowell and his dog about the foundations here. It was a gas works or something then...
...affairs. Payrolls were slashed, Florida's purchasing system was reformed, and a $37 million building program, to include a new mental hospital and a medical school for the University of Florida, was started. McCarty's proudest achievement, however, was in pushing past the agonized yelps of the dog-track lobby a bill which increased the state's share from pari-mutuel betting...
...father of three, as a nightclub singer-comedian, father of two. In a role he knows by heart, Thomas is so busy on the road making money to keep his little family in plush surroundings that he is a stranger in his own house. At a rare homecoming, his dog nips at his heels, his wife sings Remember Me, and he finds that his son has ground up his favorite slippers in the Disposall, whereupon he decides to stay home more often and become reacquainted with his family. This homey theme is developed with lighthearted good humor and is ably...
...habit of buying up rivals. He started with a simple principle: the best way to sell frankfurters was to make their contents a known quantity-pure beef-and to package them under a known brand name. This idea soon gave him a commanding hold on the New York hot-dog market. By 1929, hungry for expansion, he was ready to move into Chicago, where big Allied Packers was on the "block...