Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proverbial dog with tallow legs being pursued through the nether regions by an asbestos cat is in a better case than the fugitive hope that the Soviet will not give further cause for complaint...
...grinding gained him his necessary bread; no more. When his writings attracted attention, he declined offers of aid, indifferent to whether men called him "this famous atheist" or "the God-intoxicated man." After he died, "people talked of Spinoza as if he were a dead dog.'' But lenses found in his cabinet paid all his mortuary expenses...
Down the frozen grand allee at Quebec a team of seven excited dogs romped. They were harnessed to a sled. Behind the sled trotted young Emil St. Goddard, smiling. It was the finish of the eastern international dog sled derby and St. Goddard had defeated his archrival, Leonhard Seppala, by the comfortable margin of 20 minutes, set a new record for the event (120 miles, 40 miles per day, elapsed time, 11 hr., 37 min., 35 sec.), won a cash prize of $1,000. Enthusiastic thousands noted that dogs with long legs had come in first. Conservative Seppala had relied...
...Ashton, Idaho, Earl Kimball of the government mail service won the eleventh annual U. S. dog derby, a much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
...Concerning his wedding night and his wife's lapdog, he said: "I had to choose between sleeping beside the beast or not sleeping with my wife. A terrible dilemma, but I had to take it or leave it. I resigned myself. The dog was less accommodating. I have the marks on my leg to show what he thought about the matter...