Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...
...ship could pass through. More than one hundred, 66 of them bound down with 15,000,000 bushels of grain, had been caught in the freeze. From Detour to the "Soo" they stretched in long file, like sausages linked out over a gutter of lard. Reefered sailors dog-trotted up and down the long iron decks; flapped their cold arms against their bodies, like turkeys trying to fly to a shed roof; dared not pull off their mittens to blow their noses. There was wind and snow. Men hunched up their shoulders and pulled their necks into sweater collars. Like...
Died. Sport, St. Boniface dog, which bit a woman who was pulling its mistress' hair; in Winnipeg, by chloroform, following city trial and sentence...
...when art reaches pedal extremities it is not footless. In fact one would do well to spend an evening, two dollars and a half, and three quarters of a tumbler full of energy at Cattle Hall watching the annual December destruction of the Histrionic Club. As the old sea dog said when his child was born...
...Marching beside me as I debarked last week in Manhattan from England was my latest acquisition, Junever, pedigreed Labrador setter which I bought from the Duke of Connaught for $525. 'Junever,' said I, 'is a good dog for picking up dead birds.' I used Junever while shooting grouse at my Scotland estate. I brought also two chests filled with rare manuscripts valued at $375,000, for the Morgan Library in Manhattan...