Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louisiana judge, a juvenile officer and a welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...
...championing of Lincoln in the face of some of the Democrats in her own family was partly a childish whim, partly an indefinable urge to help the under dog...
...recording of President Eliot's speech in praise of Dr. Asa Grey is one of those things like a woman's being clever or a dog's standing on its hind legs: it isn't done well, but you're surprised and gratified to see it done at all. And then the glimpses of Harvard scenery, in the Tercentenary film itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame...
About half an hour later Farmer Baker's dog began to bark furiously. Looking out, Baker saw an automobile coming slowly down the road from town, thought it might be the battery messenger. Suddenly he heard a shot. He discussed it with his wife for three or four minutes, then started for Denhardt's car. Half way across his yard, he heard a second shot, much less loud than the first. Continuing, he found General Denhardt standing beside his car. The General asked for a flashlight, explaining that Mrs. Taylor had gone back up the road toward...
...being over only when the final whistle blows will stand longer than any mellow undergraduate who holds his arms in a circle over his head for the visitors' score. The tie game with Princeton, and the record against the Navy discount any need for laws of averages or "under-dog psychology." "Truly," to quote a sports writer, "the astute Harlow has brought this team along a cross-country mile since it took those early shellackings...