Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night some missing Navy flyers were found in the Pacific, he wrote the eight-column banner himself: BLESS GOD! THEY'RE SAFE! He scorned foreign news on the front page. Said he: "A dog fight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." He noisily offered the late Calvin Coolidge the job of editor at $75,000 a year. He permitted the picture of his daughter Helen to appear on the front page of the society section over the caption...
Bitterly the dogs' owners accused a rival exhibitor (unnamed) of the poisoning. Calling dog shows "a filthy racket," Mrs. Joseph J. O'Donohue III, part owner of Lenz, declared she would never again exhibit. She had received anonymous letters threatening that the dog would never compete in this winter's shows. There has been bitter dissension lately among members of the Dachshund Club of America...
Fanciers reluctantly admit that, though not so common as in former years, foul play is occasionally employed by ambitious or jealous dog exhibitors. Few years ago one tried to keep a rival from handling her dogs in the judging ring by sending a telegram falsely announcing her son's death...
...Dog poisoning is a felony in New Jersey. Last week clues led police toward New York City. Said Investigator Walter J. Baker: "So far as we are concerned, it is the same as a murder case...
Before Claire saw what was going on, her grandmother had fixed up for her a mariage de convenance with a neighboring landowner's son, Antoine. Antoine and Claire hit it off like cat & dog. When he went through the form of proposing to her she accepted, just to spite him. Through an amusing series of mishaps they were mutually persuaded that they loved each other and would get married after all, in spite of their families' approval...