Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul, Irish, German, resents bombast of Minneapolis, Swedish: result, cat-&-dog squabbles beyond count. To restore faith in TIME, move Kellogg back to east side of Mississippi, rescue proud Peace-Pact spirit from uneasy wanderings among flour mill tycoons...
Last week's ceremony over, Ambassador Rosso hurried back to his luxurious 16th Street Embassy with its enclosed garden, fountain, cloister. There he got a warm greeting from his red & white cocker spaniel Tobias. Said he, explaining the dog's name: "When he was a puppy, Tobias-like all cocker spaniels-leaped and played about me a great deal. One day I said to the frisky little dog, 'You would try the patience of Tobias.' I was thinking of Job -but the name stuck...
Fierce old Tzu Hsi, crafty, foreigner-hating Dowager Empress, used to say that this Lion Dog of China knew regal splendor when Europeans were "still swinging from the trees by their tails." Fanciers now generally agree that the dog probably took on its present aspect in the 7th Century A. D., but Chinese tradition holds that it was the pet of Emperors 4,000 years ago. Ancient carvings, pictures and effigies of a grotesque animal resembling the Pekingese seem to substantiate this belief...
...detailed report of his pulling a dog's teeth to protect his children, he confusedly denied after his lecture bureau manager had wirelessed him that U. S. animal lovers were protesting his admittance to the country. Cried the Professor: "Am I a dog dentist? Such a thing to say of me! I who love dogs!" In his denial, the dog became a rosebush, the teeth thorns...
...There is a common European wild rose called the dog rose (Rosa canina). It has stout, hooked thorns...