Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example 'hot dog' or 'hot diggedy dog' the latter one of my own expressions, are exclamations of joy which express more than could be conveyed in half a dozen sentences...
...procession marched to the music of two mufiled brass bands, to the Delta, where the football game is usually played, and formed a circle, surrounded by a large crowd of students and others. The sextons dog the grave, while the Chaplain delivered the funeral oration, of which we are able to give a verbatim report...
...dishwasher, the electric iron; turn off the toaster. More than that, predicted Inventor Zworykin, the rays of the rising sun falling on a single Zworykin tube will shut the bedroom windows, start the coffee percolator, light the furnace, turn on the water in the bathtub, let out the dog, while the household snores abed...
...style, and as the gayest and sassiest man on the island he became a wooer of the local belle, Jezebel Pettyfer. At this flowing tide of his affairs he lost his position because of an unfortunate argument with his mistress over the disposition of the cadaver of her lamented dog Aristotle. That same night he proposed to Jezebel, offering her Jehu Sennacherib Dyle in holy matrimony. Jezebel, though coy, finally decided: "I no mind livin' wid yo' here in dis house. But de marryin', it can come later on." Dyle reluctantly agreed looking forward...
MORE CHANGES, MORE CHANCES- H. W. Nevinson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). Memoirs of an English newspaper correspondent, who championed many an under dog with such adroit charm that he won the unstinted praise of so exacting an editor as the late H. W. Massingham...