Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closely this portion of the speech wondered why Vice President Sacasa was absent from Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926. The President did not touch upon this point. Dr. Sacasa, of course, declares that he was absent because, had he been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...hardly want to begin to put on dog* at my age." Governor Dillon compromised to the extent of putting on semi-"dog." A full dress suit, as Emily Post would confess in higher language, is considered full "dog...
...boomed a deep voice, "Mille fois non!" Good "Papa" Joffre was on his feet, earnest, concerned over the definition of mémoire. "It does not apply to human beings only," he cried. "I had an English dog called Bobby during the early days of the War. He was almost human. He died in the swamps of La Pompelle in 1917, of influenza. He always remembered and acted strangely several hours in advance of an attack when he had heard me give the order, perhaps days before. Is that memory or intelligence? Is that soul or instinct? Mes amis...
Died. Wilfred, "The Royal Rabbit" (TIME, Aug. 30), gobbled by a stray dog which broke into Wilfred's pen near Bolton Abbey, the estate of the Ninth Duke of Devonshire. The King-Emperor had purchased one-half of Wilfred for ten shillings from Bob Tomlinson, the local rector's son, and presented this fractional interest to Bob's sister Kathleen who already owned the other half of Wilfred...
...good-fellowship embroils him in a Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited dog, who wags his tail at the audience, his natural grace left uncropped by the playwright...