Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the Klan, being unwilling to attack a woman, is driving chiefly against her husband. The Klan papers call him "buzzard", "yaller dog", "old skunk", "he-viper...
...wooded spot, somewhere between the villages of Scrofano and Andriano, a dog howled dismally, became excited, started to scratch furiously...
...Newark, N. J., citizens complained that 100 vagrant goats had taken possession of the freight-yard district, butted the residents, overturned swill buckets, eaten clotheslines, rosebushes, awnings. Police, five dog-catchers, two Health Department Inspectors, Humane Society Agents, a squad of detectives geared out with lassos and dog-nets, harried the herd of whiskered miscreants, caught nine...
...never stresses her points - but she makes them, neatly, incisively, roundly complete. The subject-matter of the present group of essays ranges from The Masterful Puritan and The Divineness of Discontent, to The American Laughs (a charming discussion of kinds of humor), and The Idolatrous Dog - all disputatious subjects, but ones in which Miss Repplier lines up the hosts, sets the stage for battle, then gracefully withdraws...
...Berengaria (Cunard)-Épinard, famed French racehorse; with his stablemate (Satin Slippers), his dog friend (Peter), his owner (Pierre Wertheimer), his trainer (Eugene Leigh) ; Arthur Hammerstein, theatrical producer, with his wife, Dorothy Dalton, cinema actress...