Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kangaroo first: Yellow-Dog Dingo behind...
Devotees of Just So Stories are familiar with Yellow-Dog Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian...
...Melbourne Alsatian Club and the Queensland Shepherd Dog Association fought a hard fight for their favorite animal.* The office of the Minister for Agriculture and Stock in Queensland, has been snowed under with petitions, photographs and affidavits in defense of the amiability of Alsatians. Most of all Mr. Smith's office was inundated with pictures of famed Cinema Dog Rin-Tin-Tin. But, famed though he is for docility and discretion, not even Rin-Tin-Tin could save his brothers and sisters in Dingoland...
Charles Gates Dawes walked his Chow dog Chung along the Olympic's promenade deck, puffed his underslung pipe. He was satisfied. Everything had been precise, prompt-his conference with the Secretary of State, his last talk with the President, his packing, his sailing. He had telegraphed to London asking the exact space allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest...
After the Spanish War, Mr. Barlow obtained large tracts of land in what later became the heart of Havana. Their title rested upon a 400-year-old Spanish royal grant which bounded them "as far as a dog's bark can be heard." Cuban courts decided he had been despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose...