Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph dances where giggling Eskimo "chickens"' come to flirt with the sourdoughs; cooking the meals he serves all-comers at the unvarying price of $1.50 per meal; baking 15 loaves of 50? bread in his big cookstove thrice a week; swapping...
...mainland. By nightfall 178,000 had crossed on foot and each apparently had been first in "one way or another. Sprinter Donald Bryant was first man across. Esther & Ann Bullard were first twins. Carmen & Minnie Perez were first skaters. Florentine Calegari was first on stilts. A Scottie was first dog. Police rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked...
...assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling of the ice-floe cannot cause disaster...
...Manhattan, Dominick Roba complained to police that when two men entered his candy store and held him up,. his police dog promptly bit him, enabling the bandits to escape...
...Evansville, Ind., Mrs. John Benham suspected that her dog Jerry had eaten up two $5 bills. By feeding Jerry liberal amounts of castor oil she retrieved the bills in fragments, patched them together, forwarded them to the U. S. Treasury at Washington for redemption...