Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rudginsky waited. That afternoon a man telephoned that he could have the dog back for $500. then hung up. Mr. Rudginsky reported to the police who promptly suspected a blonde woman who had been seen at the hotel. Pacing the lobby of his hotel Mr. Rudginsky exclaimed to newshawks...
...Whoever kidnapped Timmie may be a smart racketeer, but he doesn't know dogs. The dog is sick and can't live without special care. I've been giving him medicine ever since I left Boston. I have worried about this dog more than I did when my business went on the rocks and I lost $700.000 or $800,000. The dog isn't worth ten cents to whoever kidnapped him. but I wouldn't have sold him for $10.000. . . . The damn dog has something. He steals every show he enters...
Thus did the snatching of a famed dog call attention to pupnapping. That it had become a new racket was last week apparent from other reports. In Memphis police searched for a man driving an old wagon, who represented himself as a humane society officer, seized dogs, held them for ransom. In Kansas City, Alice Wolfberg missed her chow, Ching. By telephone a man demanded $10 from her, later $20. She agreed to pay but summoned police. They arrested two men who arrived to collect...
...brutally you can keep a dog hungry for a long while, but you can't grab a bone from him without being bitten.-Socialist Norman Thomas on the reduction of Civil Works Administration payments to 4,000,000 otherwise jobless men and women...
...Philadelphia one day last week an animal-lover spied a small, black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled...