Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unique organization was started by some dog-loving graduates who wanted to see the canines of Boston and near districts feed in the right...
...symphony of sadism--ended when the big man gets to the ropes and is released. He lies on the lap of the ring, rubbing his legs and making gestures of pain and helplessness. The referee begins to count. "Get back in there you yellow dog!" The ogre stands up outside the ropes, bares his teeth, climbs back into the ring. With blood-freezing deliberation he stalks his little opponent, seizes him, takes him over to the ropes and drops him out onto the concrete. As his victim is clambering back into the ring the ogre grabs him by the head...
...Princes in India. A huge, sinister man with a curled black beard, full contemptuous lips and heavy-lidded sensual eyes, he is an able, hard-working administrator, owns 300 automobiles, 42 of them Rolls-Royces, keeps the biggest kennels in India and is president of the All-India Gun Dog Club, has a corps of wives and one of the world's greatest collections of emeralds. When he headed the Indian delegation to the Round Table Conference in London, he strongly supported the India Bill. Since then he has crucially backslid. It seemed likely that he would accept last...
...dog got up and crawled to the hearth. She sat on her haunches before the blazing pine-knots, shivering and whining. After a while the girl spoke to the dog and the animal slunk away from the warmth of the fire and lay down again beside the two babies. The infants cuddled against the warmth of the dog's flanks, searching tearfully for the dry teats...
...Marquisa de Pontejos, No.1 Goya in the U. S., is a portrait of a lady with a bouffant skirt, a single rose and a lively little pug dog. It was last seen publicly in Madrid in 1928 when Mr. Mellon lent it to the great Goya Centennial Exposition. Carman Messmore of the Knoedler Galleries calls it "probably the finest Goya in the world...