Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terming the legislative authorization for pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog-racing as "politically and socially disturbing," the Harvard Teachers Record appearing today asks "wise leadership" in the classroom in the hope of "more stringent laws regulating or prohibiting lotteries, slot machines, and all games of chance...
Aside from technical weaknesses, the picture still presents some features that are a little hard to stomach. When Cary Grant, who plays the blinded flier, stutters a little over his first attempts to walk under the guidance of a dog and makes such remarks as "I've never handled controls like these before," or "Hey, let me learn to fly this ship!", his painful metaphors can be passed off as the result of embarrassment. But when Myrna Loy describes herself as a lowwing single-motored monoplane with a fair wingspread and "streamlined, so they tell me!", the whole idea...
...night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead dog...
...Mount Pleasant, N. Y., Mrs. Hope Hitchcock, answering her neighbors' third court action against her prize English sheep dogs, testified that since the court had told her to get rid of all but a "reasonable number," she had sold 21 of her 40 dogs, quieted the rest by bedding herself in the kennels at night. In St. Paul, an unidentified woman bought an extra seat for the Civic Opera Association's performance of Rigoletto, plumped her dog in it "because he loves opera...
...producer of Westerns, Monogram will make eight this year, 16 next-mostly on a ranch belonging to Trem Carr, the studio's production chief. Columbia will this year make eight Westerns, starring Tim McCoy. Universal will make six with Buck Jones and a serial called Rustlers of Red Dog. Fox. long No. 1 producer of Westerns, plans to make six, starring George O'Brien. First Division Productions will make six this year, with Hoot Gibson as their star, and World Wide will make eight with Ken Maynard...