Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge had a ticklish task. Which one of the six dogs would he choose? English setter, wire-haired dachshund, Welsh terrier, Brussels griffon, standard poodle or Doberman pinscher? Each dog had been trained to the tail tip, each had survived a two-day ordeal of poking and prodding by judges. Each was the best of its breed and the best of its group. Now, from all the 2,451 dogs originally entered last week in the 76th annual Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden, the judge had to choose one as the best...
...pawed and licked his handler-just as if he knew he had won. Owner Len Carey bought him as a puppy, sight unseen, and has kept him in show trim by exercising him in Manhattan's Central Park. Carey, an advertising executive, was not surprised at his dog's triumph: "He's strictly a ham. He knows what a flashbulb...
...startling contrast to the dog-eared picture of Hawaii which most mainlanders (including Senators) carry around in their minds. According to the cliché, Hawaii is the home of hula dancers, ukulele players and dark-skinned surf riders, the stage for potential treason from the inscrutable Oriental-American, the impregnable bastion of Pearl Harbor, and the domain of those ancient monopolists, the Big Five...
During a heated debate in Washington on whether District of Columbia dog licenses should be raised from $3 to $5, Virginia's Representative Howard W. Smith sounded a warning: "Cats, semi-wild ones, many with rabies, are roaming Virginia. People are being attacked in their front yards . . . I'm all for doing something about cats, perhaps licensing them. They tell me cats are roaming animals. These wild ones may soon roam into the District...
Wool of bat and tongue of dog...