Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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REGARDING P-96'S PERPETUAL SUBSCRIPTION {TIME, MAY 9, 16}, UNLESS PROPOSITION IS A JOKE, WILL GLADLY TRADE SATURDAY EVENING POST, FORTUNE AND READER'S DIGEST WITH A SWELL HUNTING DOG OR A GOOD-LOOKING WIFE TO BOOT, OTHERWISE WILL PAY ORIGINAL PRICE...
...that night a dog ran over it with its muddy feet. [Here the President began to grin.] When she saw what was done she sat down and didn't cry a bit. All she said was, 'Ain't it queer that he didn't miss nothin?' That was true greatness, but it is only people who have done washing that know...
...Manhattan, the Circumnavigators Club gave a testimonial dinner for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed Arctic & Antarctic explorer. In a setting designed to resemble Byrd's Little America camp, members wearing parkas presented him with a life-sized penguin made of ice. An Eskimo dog wandered around among the tables. Admiral Byrd showed motion pictures of his Antarctic expeditions, revealed that except for the money he made by lecturing he would be completely broke, was "pretty nearly broke" anyway...
...Harvard College. Students have come to Harvard--or at least should have come to Harvard--primarily to be students, and the Student Council should consider it its main duty to see that they are aided in every way as students. Perhaps its most important function is that of watch-dog on University educational policies, but certainly an important duty is to attempt to keep at a minimum the formalities of student government...
...Hartford (Conn.) Times a former newspaperman, 34, advertised: "Job Wanted-I can tutor your children, wash your automobile or your dishes, take your dog out for a stroll, do your office work, ghost write for you, prepare your speeches and argue with your mother-in-law. . . . There is nothing wrong with me physically, mentally or morally. Will you take a chance on me?" The advertiser: an inmate in the Connecticut State Prison...