Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operator 25 is many people with many functions-and, obviously, many facets of ingenuity. Basically, Western Union uses Operator 25 as a commercial service. If, for instance, you want to find out the name of the local distributor of the Cant-Chu-U dog muzzle, Operator 25 can tell you. In many cities, Operator 25 is also the person to call back when you are not at home to receive a wire. In that capacity, Operator 25-or her counterpart-has become a familiar voice to many TIME correspondents...
...home, is actually a small-scale Kremlin. Oaken gates and a six-foot-high stone wall seal off the front; a seven-foot-high wire fence topped by barbed wire barricades the sides. Ten husky guards patrol the approaches, accompanied by a bloodhound and a German police dog...
...could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as a chaplain at the Cook County jail. He walked many a doomed man to the execution chamber, and once a "mad-dog killer" said to him near the end: "Father, why do they wait until now before they start to care?" Later, when Father Sheil was consecrated a bishop at 40, he tried to answer the condemned man's challenge...
...defendant summoned before the Kefauver Committee could not be convicted of contempt for his refusal to state what business he carried on in Chicago in 1927, to inform the Committee how he had earned $5000 in 1942, or to say whether he know William Johnson, the president of four dog tracks in Florida. These questions, together with others, the court stated did not appear on their face or in context "to pertain to the investigation which was being conducted in 1951 into the activities of organized crime in interstate commerce." Accordingly, the trial court should have directed a verdict...
...dog who pulls Madeline out of the Seine is happily named Genevieve, and Genevieve comes to live in Miss Clavel's vine-covered school. She gets lost, and Artist Bemelmans goes on a gaily painted search for her through Montmartre, the Tuileries, Saint Germain des Prés, and other Parisian quarters where colors abound. Genevieve is duly restored to hearthside, and there, in a less-abiding imagination, the story would have to end. But Bemelmans knows his moppets, deftly sets up a new problem: each little girl naturally wants Genevieve all for her own. There is trouble...