Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English version Andy Hardy hometown. He writes traveller's postcards, variants on the mundane, before he leaves on vacation; at the last minute he exchanges a Mediterranean cruise for the perennial seaside fortnight, and on his return relates Mediterranean tales from a guidebook. The situational humor--when a dog tramples his pampered begonias and a prospective son-in-law breaks his clock--is unfortunately more exercise and less amusing than Robinson's commentaries on his vacation, his newspaper, and his wife...
...moonless nights on Scotland's Isle of Mull, they say, a lonely dog still howls on the beach for his Spanish master drowned 362 years ago in the peaceful waters of Tobermory Bay. Both had sailed against England in 1588 in King Philip's mighty Armada. On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots...
...hostages-the galleon hoisted sail and headed out to sea. A short while later a hideous explosion-it was young MacLean, they say, who touched it off-rocked the quiet harbor, and the Spanish ship settled peacefully below the waves, ten fathoms down. Only the captain's dog and three sailors escaped drowning...
...Argylls and those residents of Tobermory who can still hear the captain's dog howling on their beaches at night, hope lived on, and the search went forward. The MacLeans were not talking. There is also a legend that everything worth taking from the sunken galleon was taken 300 years ago-by a MacLean...
...times Smith's prose punches as sharply as a good left jab: "Now Walcott was in full flight, and the crowd was booing him. He ducked and danced and ran. He was caught and hit; he clinched and held; he ran again." After a visit to the Westminster Dog Show, Smith announced a discovery: "The ladies tethered to the tiny toys are invariably the most magnificent members of the species . . . The smallest pooch noted was towing the largest handler, a celestial creature measuring 17½ hands at the withers, deep of chest, with fine, sturdy pasterns...