Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Betty Boop has a little dog which also stole a show. Let us hope that it will replace the title role altogether, seeing that her little falsetto, her mannerisms, and her dress make your reviewer's stomach join Alyce's in the diaphragm...
Actually the Treasury's purchases from U. S. producers and the price it pays them is but the tail on the dog of the Treasury's big silver policy. Last June a silverite putsch in Congress got the President to accept a bill authorizing the Treasury to buy silver until the price of silver reached $1.29 or until the U. S. metallic reserve against its currency consisted of 25% silver and 75% gold. The Treasury in less than ten months has bought...
THIS volume, which is the third in the series "Life and Art in Photography," contains one hundred photographs of the principal breeds. Laymen often wonder how the experts can talk so glibly about the details which distinguish one breed from another. Few people can have known so much about dogs as Dr. Johnson, who was no expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody...
...experiment it had been anxiously considering for three years. This summer, in Cincinnati and possibly Chicago and St. Louis, major-league teams will play night games by floodlight for the first time. Harried by financial difficulties, the Boston Braves threatened to turn their park into a dog racetrack. The plan was abandoned. Instead President Emil Fuchs persuaded the New York Yankees to give him Babe Ruth...
...France. The tour had grossed $1,000,000. Enthusiasm had run high. But Company Manager David Libidins was vastly relieved when he saw the gangplanks lifted. It had not been easy to mind 52 dancers, seven mothers, two fathers, 21 orchestramen, a marmoset, four turtles, a rabbit, a dog. To accommodate the troupe there had been six Pullmans, four baggage cars and a diner, besides the two-room auto-trailer which Leonide Massine, maitre de ballet, used because he wanted his borshch and pirozhki prepared by his own Russian cook...