Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under adverse conditions. Among cases that have recently come to light is that of Ralph L. Thompson '38, of Woburn, who is going to be selling magazine subscriptions this Fall. At first sight few would realize that Thompson, a regularly enrolled Senior, is blind. He does not want a dog to aid him because he feels that there would be no point in getting around if he could not get around by himself...
Europe-bound aboard the Normandie was Colorado Copperman Spencer Penrose, who keeps on his Colorado Springs summer-resort estate a menagerie of lions, bears, elephants. Said he: "This country has entered a dog-eat-dog era. ... I don't mind, I got sharp teeth...
...wrong twice. Mme Bradna told me at a cocktail party recently that she and her husband had a trained dog act. Had Olympe been born of a bareback rider immediately after a performance, it would have been picturesque indeed! Secondly, the theatre is the well-known Olympia...
...conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally, but he feels like a dog. Meantime the attractively villainous Rupert of Hentzau (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) has made everything more complicated by kidnapping the real king, holding him prisoner in the Castle of Zenda...
Though Bramah characters are, almost invariably, excruciatingly polite no matter what their feelings, they occasionally break into such plain-&-fancy cussing as "Thou concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...