Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution of whatever problem does exist, lies in the creation, by the Student Council and other undergraduate organizations, of a general attitude which would look on the proctor more and more as an aid, as a special help to the student, and less and less as an antagonistic watch-dog, set over a room to find as many morally deficient students as possible...
Doctor Samuel Johnson, that eminent pragmatist, never took off his shoes and danced on a wire. Had he done so, he well knew, he would have given any alert dog the opportunity of pontifying of him, as he once did of a dancing canine. "The wonder is not that he should do it badly, but that he should do it at all." Fearful of becoming the butt of such quadrupedantry, the wise Dr. Johnson abjured wires, seldom removed his shoes.* Not so cautious was Roger Fry, proclaimed by many educated people to be the best Art critic in the world...
...thought, when I ordered this periodical, that I was obtaining something away from this rotten propaganda that is swamping the mails, but I notice a cut of Rockefeller, and a sweet eulogy of this saint that would make a dog sick (in your last issue). If I were to write what I think about that sweeted-scented bunch of Standard Oil mob, I would do time for mailing profanity through the U. S. Mails...
...cannot understand why you, or any publisher, should think the whole of the public morons or asses when you spring such stuff. I am an even-tempered man, but, by God, when I read such tripe, I swear a blue streak and kick my favorite dog...
...sweet eulogy of a saint that would make a dog sick...