Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egyptian treasures, Freud answers letters, continues his writing, even treats a few old patients. Every Sunday evening he settles down in the parlor, coddles his five young grandchildren, enjoys a lively card game called tarot with his sons. Always at his call is his nine-year-old chow dog, Lun. During his 16 years of suffering, throughout his 15 operations, he has never uttered a word of complaint. Patient and resigned, secure in his fame, he spins out his last thoughts, and basks...
...precedent is great, with an experienced, smoothly working eight pulling the Crimson-tipped oars this spring. The paper odds that quote Yale a slight favorite on the strength of its spotless record should prove a help to the Crimson, for the Elis do not deserve their top-dog rating, and the psychological effect on Harvard should be an asset...
...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...
...James R. Lemon's sweet-singing children are living today. The Big Singing continues in the Marshall County Court House every May, but many of its dog-eared copies of Southern Harmony been thumbed to pieces...
First she polled Harvard and Yale boys, businessmen, wearers of hats, heavy shoes, tight-woven woolens, collars & ties in the dog days. These gentlemen vowed they were quite comfortable, would not admit that their clothes were archaic. Horrified, Hawes (who once fired her obstetrician because he wore a stiff collar) concluded that such clothes were indeed their proper wear...