Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign-nationality groups, hands out booklets to mothers on the care and feeding of babies, follows golden-wedding anniversaries with fond attention. But of all the Press's features, perhaps none has a more faithful following than a weekly column called "Kennel and Leash," by Dog Editor Maxwell Riddle, 52, whose bark generally has plenty of bite...
...years a dog columnist and a roving judge of dog shows, Riddle has been bitten only once, at a show years ago in Tennessee. The offending entry, a basset hound, paid dearly for its bootleg nip: it was disqualified on the spot. Riddle is devoted to man's best friend ("I'm just a sucker for dogs"), but he considers biting (especially Riddle) the unpardonable sin. To a lady asking how to cure her dog of chewing on the baby, Riddle replied tersely: "With a .45 pistol...
...stop my dog from jumping on the bed and wetting it? A. Put mousetraps...
...Three Stooges were originally that-stooges to Vaudevillian Ted Healey, who formed the act in 1922. But by the time they began making movies in 1933, the wags were tailing the top dog. As a triple, the Stooges clowned their way through a seemingly endless series of quickie flickies-most of them on a par with the early Punchdrunk, which told of a waiter, a prizefighter at heart, who wrecked the joint every time he heard Pop Goes the Weasel...
Another theory is that the Sputniks' Geiger tubes were blacked out near apogee by Van Allen radiation, and that the Russian scientists did not know how to interpret this odd behavior. The live dog carried in Sputnik II died in about a week, but the Russians have not told whether it was affected by radiation sickness. Very likely they do not know...