Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, until the official biography appeared last week was it generally known that Hermann as a little boy always encouraged his dog to bite non-Aryans. As for Tenderness, the official version records of Huntsman Göring (a great deer hunter): "He cares for a young deer found by his huntsmen with as much tenderness as he bestows on his pet lion...
...another great study he demolished the adage that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks." He proved that man's learning speed declines very little between 25 and 45 years, very slowly after that...
...asking her to be the mother of his chicks (he having decided to enter her profession) is one of the few directly humorous touches in the play. To return to the hero, he buys a sure winner to recoup all his expenses in the coming dog show, but learns that she cannot be entered because of expected pups. Then he finds that the pups are not expected, only to win with Mr. Bones in the end after...
...Harvard Dramatic Club presents as its fifty-fifth production "Straight Scotch," a sentimental little piece by Francis R. Hart, Jr., dog lover, the burden of the play being the praise of Scotch terriers. The show has genuine entertainment values in a mild, easy-going way, despite the plainness of the dialogue and the case of foreseeing the dramatic surprises. The author's enthusiasm for Scotties is contagious, although not necessarily in kind; that is, although you may come out feeling no differently about Scotch terriers, you are likely to be generally improved in spirits...
Back at home in Gaylordsville, Conn., Artist Blume settled down to paint and to train his bird dog, Sammy. In 1934 an old painting of his, South of Scranton, won first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition and Peter Blume became one of the most talked-of U. S. artists (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). South of Scranton was the result of driving a flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts...