Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Members of Parliament signed a petition asking King George to sign a pardon for two sheepdogs belonging to an M. P., which were convicted of worrying sheep in Scotland. The dogs had been sentenced to death by a local Police Court. An appeal was made to the Secretary for Scotland, who replied that he could reprieve a man but not a dog. The Lord Advocate advised that only the King could save the dogs. One of the guilty dogs is about to become a mother...
William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University : "In Scribner's for April I wrote: 'My present Irish setter, Rufus H. Phelps, is ... the most literary dog I have ever known. He has been stroked by W. B. Yeats, patted by Hugh Walpole, petted by G. K. Chesterton, caressed by Joseph Conrad, and kissed by John Galsworthy...
...Manitoba ten dog team of six dogs each mushed for 200 miles to determine the world's champion six-dog outfit. In 23 hours and 46 minutes one Shorty Russick and his hybrid-huskies won the $2,500 prize money, three trophies and a record. Fifteen hundred persons watched the winner reach home...
...dog invests in a buried bone. A peasant invests in a silver filled stocking. A fool invests in wildcat stock. But a Manchurian War Lord invests in munitions. Chang Tso-Lin, sitting at Mukden, took inventory of his assets. He decided to diversify and strengthen his holdings by new purchases. He prepared for Spring "maneuvers." So he bought a shipload of French munitions. He tried to buy a few warehouses full of Italian arms which were encumbering the vicinity of Peking, but negotiations fell through so he sent to Holland and bought a big shipment of arms that was stranded...
...past few years Crimson rooters lining the banks of the Thames in June have been able to hum "Here come the dog-gone Elis" to no exulting strains of victory. Sharp disappointment has led to sharper criticism, with the result that pessimism has been the prevailing attitude toward the "crew situation". In a measure the work of candidates and coaches must necessarily suffer in such an atmosphere. But with the arrival of Coach Stevens and his staff there seems to have occurred a definite reversal...