Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While the bull-dog begins to wail...
...special value or interest in the number. "Professor Spink" continues his mildly satirical lectures in a style which will at once establish its familiarity for readers of the Advocate files of the early eighties; Mr. Amery-Small, and Mr. Austin Van Bent (genteel names!) incur exposure by a pointer dog in an attempt to evade the game laws of the state of Michigan, all incidental to trifles like lying and forgery,--which incidents are smugly reviewed by the principals when "the lounging-room of the Somerset Club was cool and pleasant." Is this art or realism...
...them. Sport for the sake of victory alone has much in common with prize-fighting. It is valuable in all forms of sport to have system and definiteness; organized teams and outside contests are excellent means to obtain them, but they should be secondary. The tail has wagged the dog for a long time at Harvard...
...Smith's delightful short stories and novels are widely known and read. Among the best are "Col. Carter, of Cartersville," "Gondola Days," "The Under Dog," "Col. Carter's Christmas" and "The Wood Fire...
...Smith told many other stories also, and read passages from two of his books "The Old-Fashioned Gentleman," and "The Under Dog"; all to show how in different walks of life, toleration and sympathy are the prime requisites of a gentleman...