Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coward" is derived from Old French roots meaning "short-tailed," from the analogy of the timid short-tailed rabbit and the dog which makes its tail less prominent in fear...
...Angeles, Calif., idlers, bummers, run-dums, hooligans, drugstore cowboys, shuffled into a dime museum "for men only" to gawp at stimulating pictures, grisly specimens, pickled freaks, wax wonders, and at Balto, famed Alaskan husky dog, who pulled the lead trace on the sledge that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome two winters ago; the dog to whom Manhattan erected a bronze statue...
...machinery with eyes and fingers to give so and so many turns to such and such bolts as they pass by in an endless, changeless stream from morning till night; a sort of machinery that gets in the habit of doing its particular bit of work like the dog on the turnspit and requires about as much intellegence. It is this habit in factory work of which Mr. E. D. Smith will speak at 9 o'clock this morning in Emerson...
Spectators cheered each, loudly, impartially-smiled sympathetically at Pinegrade Perfection whose hind legs were properly too long for his front ones. Judges conferred, pronounced Pinegrade Perfection best dog of the show. More cheers were heard. The selection had been popular. Sealyham pups are cute, correct, expensive, said to be in favor with the Prince of Wales at the moment...
...hundred years ago, between 1808 and 1834, an immense, full-bodied man wandered through the wilds of this continent, from the cypress swamps of Florida to Labrador and west to the Rockies. He carried a gun and a sketchbook. His dog padded behind him on the trails...