Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought a comic was a gagman, not an actor, and any joke that couldn't be told in one breath couldn't be funny. Kahane sprays his BBs in all directions. "In kindergarten, my kid flunked clay ... I love children, I went to school with them . . . Our dog is adopted. My wife and I couldn't have one . . My brother-in-law? Something's wrong when a guy tries to take his pants off over his head and makes...
...pretty girl's parcels, and they turn out to belong to a fat woman walking behind her. He crashes through the bushes in the park to give a lump of sugar to a poodle on a leash, discovers that the leash holder is walking a baby, not a dog. He prances up behind a sports car to doff his hat to a long-haired blonde in the front seat, only to find that she is an Afghan hound, not a mademoiselle. In a nightclub he sets off a chain reaction when he borrows a cigarette lighter from a girl...
...broken, man, horse, steer-or all three -can be crippled or killed. To rodeo men, the poorest form of all is called the "houlihan," when a bulldogger illegally knocks the steer down as he jumps from his horse and the dazed animal somersaults on top of him. In a "dog fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under the steer wrestler's horse...
...India, cried a socialist politician last week, 270 million people exist on 4? a day, while it takes 63? daily to feed Jawaharlal Nehru's dog. Not so, retorted Nehru: daily subsistence for 70% of the population is all of 20?. (He did not deny his canine food costs.) The accusation, and the Prime Minister's reply, were fair samples of the acrimonious personal attack on Nehru last week during the first censure motion against the government in India's 16 years of independence...
After a pause for the midsummer dog days, the trips to Europe or the work at summer school, the debutantes are beginning to swarm again along the Eastern Seaboard. Last week, for instance, Banker Stephen C. Clark brought out his daughter Susan in Cooperstown, N.Y.; this week Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, daughter of Philadelphia's Francis Bring Wetherill and Mrs. Donald Stewart Leas Jr., will have a huge party in Southampton; Cynthia Phipps, daughter of horsy Investment Banker Ogden Phipps, will entertain 1,000 guests with Lester Lanin's music on Long Island Sept. 9; and two days before...