Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also turned around to look at women on the boulevards. In this he differed not a whit from other Parisian gentlemen, but he took notes. He then made sketches and sold them to dressmakers. Finally, the owner of a dress establishment gave him a job in return for a dog that M Poiret's father gave to the dress-place proprietor...
...Bull & Dog Near Oregon, Ill., Farmer William P. Pierce dropped the dog he was intending to kill for constantly stealing eggs, when a bull attacked him. Neighbors turned away, sickened as the bull knocked the man to earth. But the convicted dog set at the huge beast, tore at him, until he turned from the man, to chase after the dog. Farmer Pierce may live. Bull & Girl...
Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...
...warning, waxed humorous, and said: "Mr. McAdoo may be pardoned the slight hyperbole. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the average load of a taxicab in these parts is .83 of a passenger. Private automobiles offend to a somewhat less degree, averaging 1.7 passengers and just a trace of dog -generally lap dog...
...Month Club in the U. S. This new novel, as poetic in its wisdom as the first, was lately chosen by the Literary Guild of America. Of Sylvia Townsend Warner herself very little is allowed to be known. She lives "alone in a house, with a big, black dog." She studies Tudor music, Roman ruins, believes in witches...