Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gardens housewives stripped the Horticultural Building of rare plants and flowers, some worth as much as $200 each. Roving bands of youths stormed the booths of concessionaires. A 13-year-old boy was caught by police lugging off two huge bones of a prehistoric monster, to feed to his dog. Recurring showers of bottles from the 64-story Skyride Tower grew so alarming that the elevators were finally stopped. Dancing feet stomped into ruin landscaped lawns. Into Lake Michigan went benches and tables, and when policemen sought to admonish the revelers, they tossed the policemen in, too. All through...
...brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If there were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize." In spite of this frankness ? which some readers may mistake for modesty ? Author Herbert George Wells will continue to be taken at his face value as one of the First Citizens of the (nonexistent) World State. Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts...
...Robert Louis Stevenson's modern counterpart in honesty, Clarence Buddington Kelland. The other propitiatory offering is a newcomer to the screen, but one on whom the Playgoer would bet his last and bottom dollar. She is Helen Trenholme, appearing with Warren William in "The Case of the Howling Dog...
...Case of the Howling Dog" offers nothing but what its title suggests, except that it is a little more confusing. But if ever one player stood out from a picture and turned in a performance that gave every indication of future success, it is the youthful Miss Trenholme. She has added to an unusual piquant brunette beauty, the most perfectly natural attitude before a camera that has garnished a movie for some time...
...campaign room, a dozen precinct captains swarm around the phone. Each wears a round badge, patriotically decorated in red, white, and blue, also with green, yellow, and purple, thrown in to make it attractive. An enormously fat bull-dog with a hide that was once white, rolls on the floor in the havoc of cigar-butts, torn posters, and dirt. He slouches away from one of the campaign managers. He upsets the spittoon. "Jesus, Curley, watch it!" one of the cigar-chewers admonishes...