Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dogs entered by the Peabody Museum of the University constitute, so far as is known, the only entries from the University in the Eastern Dog Show now being put on in the Mechanics Building. The dogs are insured for $5000 apiece, a sum greater than that on any of the thoroughbreds who are present, during their brief absence from Cambridge...
...these were splendid, well-nigh perfect dogs. But when, on the second day, the winners in every breed paraded into the ring so that the judges could choose from among them a champion of champions, an Ace-King of the show, the grand prize went to none of these. It went to an obscure little white dog...
There was a lonely saluki, or gazelle hound, the only one of its species ever seen in Manhattan, a sly dog that looked for all the world like a cross between a collie and a greyhound. There were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them...
Alaunts Double, a bulldog as scarred and seamed and magnetically ugly as a Prussian duelist. Owned by Lee & Rawes of Philadelphia. There was an even uglier dog in this class, Sensible Fred, owned by Thomas Grisdale of New York. But he was not quite so sound as Alaunts, and soundness, in a bulldog, is more important even than spectacular hideousness...
Seumas Cerina, a Kerry Blue terrier, owned by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst. A fine upstanding dog, but very rangy...