Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerable satisfaction. The second (derived from the play Business before Pleasure) is quite as entertaining. The four-star label on the billboards displays the names of Alexander Carr, George Sidney, Vera Gordon and Betty Blythe. When Abe takes to kicking the lion under the impression that it is a dog in disguise, there is really no point in anyone's retaining his gravity. The subtitles are even more diverting...
Died. Representative William SV Greene, 83; in Fall River, Mass., as a result of an accident incurred while trying to chase a dog away from his door. He was one of the oldest members of Congress, and six times Mayor of Fall River...
...Brook to witness the much-heralded polo match. Several times that crowd was seen to rise hesitatingly as a succession of young men wearing clothes a la Renfrew arrived. His arrival was unmistakable; the vast hordes of photographers gathered at the main entrance to the field suddenly went "mad dog", scampered hither and thither, stopped, snapped and retired. Cheers and handclaps were absent, but most of the spectators strained their necks. All present were impressed with the Baron's good sportsmanship. He smiled throughout the game, despite the fact that the British were losing. ¶Next day, lunch with...
...crossed Smith Sound to Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Island, with dog team three times. There we landed the National Geographic Society's memorial tablet in commemoration of 'Starvation Camp', the site of the disaster of the ill-fated Greely Arctic Expedition of 1881. All in all, we covered 2,000 miles with dog team...
...rots the oak that chambers it. He lost his wealth, she deserted him, then both followed their blood until he was a river front soak, and she, one gusty night, crept back back to die in the old house on Innes street under the coverlet whose motto was: "The dog for faithfulness, the pheasant for luxury, the swan for lust...