Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today." His speeches were few but brash, sarcastic and courageous. One day in May 1932, after Goebbels had attacked the German Socialists on the Reichstag floor, Deputy Schumacher rose in fury to reply. "The whole National Socialist movement," he cried, "is only a lasting appeal to the inner swine-dog in man . . . For the first time in German political history, someone has succeeded in absolutely mobilizing German stupidity...
...stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak. I held on maybe five seconds, and he straightened the hook...
...printed a series of photographs pointing up likenesses between Dali's work and that of some of his predecessors. Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross (TIME, Dec. 17), said A.B.C., resembles a Crucifixion by the 81-year-old French artist Auguste Leroux. A dog in a recent Dali picture is the image of a dog in Anye Bru's Martyrdom of St. Mcdin (circa 1500), and the Dali horses in his set for the ballet Mad Tristan look like John Frederick Herring's 19th century favorite, Pharaoh's Horses. A.B.C. captioned...
...first glance, there did seem to be striking resemblances. Dali's Christ, like Leroux's, was seen from above and from much the same angle. The Dali dog rested head on forepaws in exactly the same position as Bru's, had the same collar and the same markings. And the main difference between Dali's wild-eyed horses and Herring's was that Dali had painted his with crumbling brick foreheads...
...final obstacle and streaked into the homestretch, the "catchers," i.e., owners and handlers, began whooping up a strictly legal bedlam, whistling shrilly and waving scarves to guide the hounds across the finish line. The winner, and current favorite for the H.T.A. championship: a limpid-eyed, three-year-old dog named Ravensbarrow, whose Lancashire farmer owner, Roger Hudson, proudly collected a poor man's purse...