Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beach, near Seattle. Neither had any of the people who flocked to inspect it last week. All they could think of was sea serpent. It was eight feet long, weighed about 1,300 Ib. It had a head like a goat's, but much larger; teeth like a dog's; a body which began like a buffalo's and tapered off like a sea lion's, with two four-toed feet at the rear. Beneath its tough, oily skin were 16 ribs attaching its backbone to a hard breastplate...
...Irene Castle McLaughlin, famed pre-War dancer who has become Chicago's most militant champion of abused animals, sailed for Europe last week. Few days later, to advertise his firm's Ideal Dog Food, President Thomas E. Wilson of meatpacking Wilson & Co. unveiled on Michigan Boulevard a billboard containing six live Boston terriers...
President Wilson was taking no surreptitious advantage of Mrs. McLaughlin's absence. His unique sign, situated beside the Palmolive Building at swank Delaware Place, had been approved in advance by Chicago's Anti-Cruelty Society. The barkers for Ideal Dog Food were housed in a 26-ft.-wide shed with triangular glass front projecting from the sign's centre. To keep them comfortable there had been installed $6,000 worth of airconditioning. There were also a 30-gal. water tank, blue-lighted kennels, a drinking fountain, awnings, Venetian blinds, sleeping quarters for an attendant in the rear...
...Lynn, Mass., newshawks spied War Veteran Michael Collins, his dog, Madame Queen, and his duck, Mac, hiking along the road to Maine. Explaining he wanted treatment at the Togus, Me., soldiers' home, Veteran Collins said he, Madame Queen and Mac had hiked all the way from Phoenix, Ariz, in a year...
...care to incorporate, the books of Bowes Inc. would show by September a weekly gross of some $30,000. For the famed Bowes gong now reverberates far beyond his radio audience, in a half-dozen lucrative side lines. There are Major Bowes highball glasses, decorated with pictures of cat & dog amateurs; Major Bowes cotton fabrics, also decorated with amateurs; the Major Bowes alarm clock which rouses sluggards with a gong; the 25? Major Bowes' Amateur Magazine; the weekly Amateur Writers Page in Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty ; a parchesi-like Major Bowes Game; two monthly movie shorts...