Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ones were rock hard. She worried about the water being turned on in Mr. Roosevelt's "dream cottage" at Hyde Park, where royalty would picnic Sunday. Princess Te Ata, a Choctaw-Chickasaw half-breed from Oklahoma, was engaged to tell Indian tales at the Hyde Park hot-dog fest. Her newspaper syndicate announced that she would describe Their Majesties' doings in her column My Day. She added Kate Smith and a cowboy-song singer named Alan Lomax to her team of Lawrence Tibbett and Marian Anderson for the musicale after the State Dinner. Gifts received for Their Majesties...
...Actress Campbell snatched Moonbeam from the official clutch, sailed back to the U. S., eventually settled in Paris. Last week, still miffed, still dandling Moonbeam, she soliloquized: "It was easier for me to sacrifice the happiness of giving my talent to my English audience . . . than to break my little dog's heart...
Several months ago, said Dr. Patton, a worried dog owner consulted him about the howling and staggering of his sturdy, thoroughbred dogs. Dr. Patton found that ten days before, the owner had taken his dogs off a special diet rich in vitamin B1 (found in whole cereals, meat, milk and eggs). He now fed them nothing but starchy dog food. When Dr. Patton gave the dogs meat and a well-balanced dog-food diet again, they made "a rapid and prompt recovery...
...Since dogs deprived of vitamins C, D and G develop scurvy, rickets and pellagra just like human beings, Dr. Patton believed that he had discovered the canine equivalent of beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency disease). To test his belief he took 13 healthy puppies from his own kennels, fed them nothing but water and heavy dog food mixed with all the vitamins but B1. Within a week the dogs shunned the food, lost weight. They avoided light, trembled and cringed when patted, climbed walls, fell backward, howled constantly. When offered food, they fell forward into their pans...
Canine beriberi, concluded Dr. Patton, first developed in the U. S. "during the years immediately following the War . . . when scraps suitable for dog food largely disappeared from the . . . dining-room table, and urban dog owners turned to commercial foods for the sustenance of their pets. ..." If owners do not feed their dogs meat, said Dr. Patton, to avoid fits they should make sure that the commercial food they use contains vitamin...