Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conservative from the minute he entered state politics in 1928, he once explained: "I have a respect for the rights of the top dog [and] no use for the foolish doctrine of equality between the active and the idle, the intelligent and the dull, the frugal and the improvident." Became Attorney General almost the day he was elected to the federal Parliament and by 1939 was Prime Minister, taking Australia into the war at Britain's side. But when the Laborites forced him out in 1941, Australians shed no tears. "The trouble with Bob Menzies," said one politician...
...BLUE DOG AND OTHER FABLES FOR THE FRENCH (48 pp.)-Anne Bodarf -Houghton Mtfflln...
Langlie describes the journey: "It was quite a trip. All three of us kids had the whooping cough, and I was worried about my dog, who was in the baggage car. When we got off the train in Seattle, I didn't see either the dog or my father. Then, all at once, we saw the dog tied to a telephone pole and my father coming to welcome us." With dog and father accounted for, Art Langlie looked around, announced, "I'm going to like it here, Mother. I like the trees and the water...
...daughter of a doctor, Gabrielle had fervently hoped to be sent to the Belgian Congo as a missionary nurse. She was assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared for 1,000 female patients. There she tended a countess who thought she was a dog and ate from a plate in the center of the floor, a onetime abbess whose chief quirk was to wear a brown-paper bag on her head night and day, and a dementia praecox case who thought she was the Archangel Gabriel and nearly succeeded in strangling Gabrielle to death...
...better-paid than ever. Says a Cleveland merchandising manager: "There are no more yokels." Instead of bludgeoning the customer with razzle-dazzle headlines and ranting copy, admen are buttonholing him with quiet humor, soft talk and attractive art. On the heels of the hard sell spieler comes the shaggy dog who converses with Friend Joe on the merits of rum, and the shaggy Schweppesman who will drink anything plus tonic. Kangaroos sell airline tickets; giraffes promote Ethyl; Mr. Magoo plugs beer. Banks are using cartoons to encourage thrift. The low-key sell is not in itself...