Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another, Ernest Krinby, of Aniak, an old sourdough, admits that times have changed. He recalls that 20 years ago there were two mail deliveries a year by dog team, and that on those occasions you would "lock the door and read for a week." Now the mail plane arrives every day, weather permitting. Says he: "Civilization is creeping up on us. And," he adds, contrary to all literary expectations, "we are glad...
...sort of dog; it guards the house...
...didn't see anything like a dog...
...rather see a portrait of a dog that I know," said Samuel Johnson, "than all the allegorical paintings ... in the world." That preference is common enough to make portrait painting a profitable sideline for some artists and a posh profession for many. Last week, in an elegantly furnished Park Avenue gallery known as "Portraits, Inc.," sample portraits by 50 of the nation's top practitioners went on display...
Traveling alone by dog sled in 1932, lean Father Henri arrived in King William Land, near the Magnetic Pole, with a portable altar and a bare minimum of supplies. Because of his rust-colored beard the Netsilik Eskimos called him Kai-i-o (The Red One); they were fascinated by his long black cassock, and asked whether they could make a tent...