Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward of Wales on the longest possible Empire tours. A predecessor of Mrs. Simpson remembers how H.R.H. left her for one of these tours of duty, sob bing bitterly, and she has the innumerable cablegrams he sent her while abroad, many dealing with the daily doings of the little dog she gave him to remember her by. Some $100,000 was fruitlessly spent at Queen Mary's order in doing over Marlborough House in 1928 to make it a suitable home for the Prince and a Princess of Wales...
...Editor Martin, who suffered from malaria, retired for a few years to build up his health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...
Making himself the subject of deathly experiment is his specialty. To show that men have more stamina than dogs, he remained in a chamber filled with hydrocyanic acid gas until a dog died, then walked out with the creature in his arms...
...surprised that a magazine of your character would publish such. I do not care to have such filth spread out in my home for all my family to get mired up in. Please cancel my subscription and send the balance due me to the nearest worthy dog hospital...
...bend down," a fourth woman muttered, "and her head changed to a dog's head and she had big bumps on her back...