Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words. He neatly said that since nobody is to blame for the Ualual incident no cause exists for war, ridiculed what he called the Fascist concept of a "Supernatural Mission for Eternal Rome" and scathingly declared: "In France we have a proverb, 'When a man wants to drown his dog he first says it is mad.' Italy, having resolved to conquer Ethiopia, begins by calling Ethiopia...
...standing. For a decade its players have felt that they enjoyed a banner year when they finished in the first division. Last year the club's treasury showed a serious deficit. This year, the situation grew acute. First, the Braves' President Judge Emil Fuchs proposed to run dog races at Braves Field as a side attraction. The National League indignantly refused to allow it. Then Colonel Jacob Ruppert of the New York Yankees made Judge Fuchs a present of Babe Ruth. Dazzled momentarily by what he mistook for good fortune, Judge Fuchs soon learned that shrewd Colonel Ruppert...
...where he would not be able to get his hands on a bottle of whiskey. He found himself in a modern hospital resembling an expensive hotel, where he was compelled to meet and talk with other patients, and where he slept in "a wide-open show window, an illuminated dog kennel." The medical attention was so close that, as he objected profanely, "people come walking in and out and prodding me with sticks every minute of the day and night." Irritable, anxious to sleep, half stupefied with drink, he objected to being weighed and given a shower, objected more vehemently...
...syndicate of U. S. hotelmen went two miles deeper into Mexico, to a hot springs oasis and there built a complete, lavish money-spending plant, charged high prices, black-listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place for exterior shots in In Caliente...
...usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly cut down and the owner is considered in peril of death. If a dog is remarkably lucky at hunting, it is thought to be catching game to be served at its owner's funeral. Aberrations in the behavior of animals, sexual and otherwise, are to be dreaded. If dogs mate indoors, or with pigs, they are set down as wizards and disposed...