Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several times leaving me gasping weakly like a fish and chasing my poor brains in a jog-trot down a dusty, cloudy track. He had me in front of him,. hat in hand, at attention with a confounded stenographer peering at my face with the watchfulness of a setter dog whenever my answers were slow in issuing. I wish I had a transcript of the testimony, for when I emerged I found I couldn't recall a third of other argument...
...girls whom he brings to heel he calls weeds, adding sardonic "ha-has" to show the kind of dog he is. This garden he cultivates with money, which ha describes as "a most powerful fertiliser," apparently forgetting that money has no smell. One of his mermaid myrmidons flees and takes shelter on the noble bosom of a rival rich man. When they return from their honeymoon, the villain hounds her at a dinner so that she misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along...
Bicycles are as thick in Paris as hairs on a dog's back and the expression "No, thanks, I'm going to walk to the office as I haven't time to ride in an automobile," is in daily use. In across-Paris race between a bicycle, an automobile, a subway passenger and a pedestrian, the bicyclist won?time 17 mins., 16 secs., distance about 6 miles...
...look out this little millionaire will degenerate into America's smallest ham. Those who are now guiding his destinies are already filling him up with stagy tricks, turning him into the poor little rich boy. In his latest picture, made from Ouida's classic, A Dog of Flanders, Jackie does just what you might expect a small-time vaudevillian to do under given circumstances. There are many points of wistful appeal in the tale of the little Dutch orphan, persecuted by the narrow village as a tiny vagabond, who wins a prize and recognition with his drawing just...
...reasons for this astonishing situation do not lie far below the surface. It merely happens that about three hundred years ago, isolated individuals about the continent of Europe wanted to know. That is, they refused to accept the dog-oared Aristotle so long revered by lothargic scholasticists, and became engrossed in finding out for themselves. Their chief instrument was doubt; their great virtue, a painstaking, indefatigable capacity for work. With Galileo, Descartes and Bacon began modern science--and so sound were the methods employed, so fruitful the results of this often-condemned skepticism, that now in 1924, the world...