Word: dogged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feelings of the average fed-up layman are approximately the same as his attitude toward Sandino and Diaz and their little quarrel. He rather hopes it will be a "dog eat dog" fight. There is no good reason why one should not decorate his billet doux and otherwise to his heart's content providing the posters bear no improper sentiments. And of course there is no good reason why he should, especially if the Postal authorities object. However, much as one may dislike propaganda of any sort plastered over his private correspondence, the line here seems to be rather arbitrarily...
...What is this 'Pertinax' like?" wondered, last week, admirers of the President. Friends of Editor André ("Perttinax") Géraud were quick to recall him as an active, married man, possessing no children and but one flourishing, likeable dog. Scarcely a statesman in Europe is too potent to be conscious whether he has just been praised or blamed by "Pertinax's" trenchant, independent pen, and most Great Men are careful to recognize him with a nod or smile, when he inevitably appears to cover any European event of first political importance...
...took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them, muffling soft sounds, making a dog's voice, searching along some far hedgerow, an obscure dangerous signal, a portent of sorrow. The quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people, were a solemn whisper always ringing in his ears like the sea's slow music echoing...
Perhaps because of this all the essays deal more or less with books and their great value as friends, companions, educators. Most of the pieces are not very profound, and the less fortunate ones are but thinly disguised book advertisements. Dog Corner is evidently the country home of the author, and the main characters of the volume are he, his wife Margaretta, Anne, his somewhat phenomenal five-year old daughter, and the terrier, Michael...
...much better than the Widow's--Jeanne Eagels' in "Her Cardboard Lover," now playing at at the Plymouth Theatre. We, for one, found it the most delightful comedy of the season. It has all that a regulation French comedy should have--except dullness. The strange behavior of a Pekinese dog, and the appearance of the conscientious secretary in a suit of sunset pajamas provided just that touch of nature that makes the whole world...