Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairbanks, the northern terminal of the railroad, the mail is carried by auto (weather permitting) to Chatanika, about 30 mi.; from there to Circle, about 130 mi., it is carried by horses, a five-day trip; from Circle to Coal Creek, almost 55 mi., the mail is carried by dog team up the Yukon River, in 2¼ days. The dog team has been on time every week this winter, even in snow storms or 50°-below-zero weather. Due to the difficulty in getting the horses over the pass to Circle in bad weather, mail has not always...
With the day just breaking, the "Dawn Cabinet," as Paris christened it, trooped from the Elysée Palace and Premier Laval snappily observed to the dog-tired Press: "I have formed a Government of action. I did my duty in forming a Cabinet and I hope the Nation and Parliament will do their duty in supporting...
...hysterical historical" sketches begin with George Washington discussing a radio broadcast about to be made by Martha, whom he keeps calling Eleanor. The opening of Annapolis serves as a background for a performing chow dog named Red Dust which comes in draped around a lady's neck like a fur piece and is, thereafter, in a state of almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley...
...Heaven, studious, introspective Emperor Hirohito, distracted Palace officials rushed with tidings that the Divine Monarch's youngest brother, His Imperial Highness Prince Sumi, 19, had just been bitten by a dog. According to official announcements both dog and prince were "detailed for observation" in Narashino Military Hospital but at latest reports neither had shown signs of rabies and Prince Sumi's wound was called slight...
plunder,- And a graceful siding with the underdog, Although he may not know which dog...