Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silent Accuser. Dog films usually succeed. Peter the Great is the canine protagonist of this example. He frees his master, falsely accused of murder, from jail. A remarkably trained actor, he is eminently worth watching...
After the U. S. press published the income tax figures (TIME, Nov. 3), the U. S. Department of Justice was on the lookout for a newspaper-dog or two. When the dogs were caught?or rather selected?the equivocal tax-publicity law, as set forth in the publicity clause of the Revenue Act of 1924, would be tried on them in test suits. It was a matter of interest to the public which, of thousands of available canines, the Government would select...
Ponce de Leon had his filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
...Manor. The forest-keeper had shot him in the leg, and he had not dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment, to the wedding-guests too busy with laughter and drinking to heed him. Terrified at thought of the hospital, he took matters into his own hands. He ground an ax to a sharp edge, placed...
Reparations, had a terse word to say to photographers who had conceived it to be their duty to dog his footsteps. As Mr. Gilbert is possessed with powers that might turn an absolute despot green with envy, Paris photographers decided to treat him as royalty and "snap" him with that regularity that attends their attitude toward visiting monarchs...