Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero is a dashing dog than whom no one in Charleston can fight or love more fiercely. He is in charge of the rebel forces and becomes deeply implicated in a treason plot through his pretty wife's Tory family. In a last act, which is as complicated as a mystery melodrama, the true spy turns up and the British are confounded...
...there no cure for epilepsy?" many have asked. No, none. Yet in Moscow last week a truly well-known physiologist, Professor Pavlof, froze part of a dog's brain. The dog developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...
...Bloomsburg, Pa., a wild animal show came to town; the lions roared all night. Soon citizens began to miss their dogs. Then a small boy spied a dog-collar in the lion cage; others saw pieces of paws, etc.; the gloating lions roared no longer. Indignant police told the circus to leave town. Out it went...
Harvard broke into the victory column the following autumn. The Crimson entered the game the under-dog, but soon proved its worth. When in the third period one of Cordingley's long punts hit the leg of a Princeton back, combs fell on the ball, and a moment later Piaffman entered the game and came through with a field goal. A safety in the closing period, which Princeton claimed to have made intentionally, made the final score...
...dog's tail, nothing less...