Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Jerdanowitsches were bequeathed to the world. One showed a sprinkling of eyes against a dark background gashed by zigzag lightning flashes. To the uninitiated it looks like rash on a hairless dog. La Revue Moderne of June 30, 1927, grew ecstatic over this one, wrote about "this strange artist's inspirational paintings," recounted his troubled biography. Another of his inspirations was a woman kneeling before a totem pole in the Polar regions, its title "Adoration...
...lipped Nordic already has a wife, who refuses a divorce. The artless child overcomes all these obstacles, in spite of the fact that until the last reel, she wears no Parisian gowns but appears only on horseback, in the jungle swimming pool, in a hula custume, or (when her dog scampers into the Englishman's room and she gives chase) in a kimono. Divorce is forthcoming when the wife is tricked into believing her husband penniless. All this receives, and certainly needs, enormous "IT", for the scenario is sick unto death...
...Aveling analysis of laughter one illuminating step further. The minor point was: whereas Dr. Aveling supposed hyenas and humans to be the only laughing animals, Dr. Bolton had observed laughter in cows, calves, horses, monkeys; "and the most obvious laughter in the animal kingdom is that of the dog...
Manhattanites went last week to a fish show, which is quieter than a dog show, prettier than a horse show. At a fish show, small creatures with few desires swim around in their tanks, staring out with gulps of incredulity at the pallid, blurred faces of monsters moving awkwardly in another element...
...Grenfell has been called "the Knight Errant of the North" and two generations of U. S. school and college men, among whom he visits often to enlist funds and volunteers, have marveled at his adventures with ship and dog-sledge...