Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press association reporter ... at one time or another had worked under a hard-boiled city editor who beat out his brains with a club when he wrote above the head of the man in the street. . . . Now the average reporter is a journalism graduate and apparently puts on the dog to show how much he knows...
Explaining the importance of political action, Robert Koblitz 2PA, chairman of of the school, said that "politics must be taken out of the dog-house and presented to the average citizen for what it is, a technique in itself neither good nor bad. The only remedy for what's wrong with American politics is more politics...
Charles Ross, 62, a lanky hound-dog-sad-looking man who succeeded Steve Early as press secretary. Likable, intelligent, usually tired, he dogtrots through a delicate and strategic job; he is also handicapped by Mr. Truman's understandable but unhelpful desire to keep all details of his personal life private. Ross went to high school with the President, became chief of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, once won a Pulitzer prize for his stories on the Hoover depression...
...town representative in the state legislature, Harrison Fowler. Then, the town clerk was elected. He is paid $300 per year for his job of recording deeds, collecting license fees, and in general keeping all town accounts. He is also given a percentage of the property taxes and the dog license fees for his trouble. But he must maintain the busy office in his own home...
...Easter Rabbit," by Robert K. Bingham, is the most finished and interesting piece of fiction in the magazine. An introspective young man buys a live rabbit and gives it to his mistress, but the forgets that she has a large dog in the house. The relationship of the two animals symbolizes the doubt and fear in the man's mind, and the story becomes at times terrifying by placing brutality in the limited world of the animals...