Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York suburbs ravished chicken coops were called to police notice. After a headlong chase intrepid guardians shot a coyote, small craven of the dog tribe normally found on western plains. Twelve slaughtered turkeys in another suburb roused another chase. A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot...
...watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket the little tramp at last became aware of the fat purse that he was carrying. Pleased, he walked over to a hot-dog stand and bought himself a sausage; then he looked at his new watch. The proper owner of watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property. The little tramp ran away and dodged into a big tent where there was a circus. Here he amused the spectators...
...picture must go to Actress Lillian Gish, in the role of the wife whom war has robbed. Now 29, Actress Gish appeared on the stage for the first time when she was 4 years old at a salary of $10 weekly. Now she has $8000 a week, a police-dog, a canary, a gluttonous appetite for licorice candy, and a reputation for frail, goldenhaired beauty that has suggested, in a recent popular song, this recipe for exceptional loveliness: "Put Cleopatra into a dish, add a dash of Lillian Gish...
Sirs: Your Waco, Tex., man, who squirts a jet of poison gas at Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared...
...Would you like to go down to the Antarctic with me next winter? Want five others of your tribe. Two of their wives who are good at sewing. Want strong men and good dog drivers...