Word: dogging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Have been reading about the Byrd Expedition and the naming of different mountain peaks after great men; why not name a mountain, a bay or an inlet after the great dog Chinook. He did a great thing in a dog's way. Chinook was brave until the last, in soul and action, even to die alone...
...Dog Chinook was named for a wind-the dry warm northwesterly wind that is said to moderate the climate and "lick up" the snow from cold mountain slopes...
...authorizing him to incur additional obligations up to $2,750,000 to match public donations for park improvements. Behind this proposal were two purposes: 1) To save Yosemite National Park from logging on 11,000 acres of private land within its confines; 2) To banish forever unsightly "hot dog" stands from Federal expanses of nature's bosom...
...Baltimore, Md., in the psychological laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, a priest and several professors, social workers, dog fanciers turned their ears in the direction of Princess Jacqueline, brindle French bulldog, who was reputed to be "able to talk." They asked her to spell. She replied: "Wah the ell, wah the ell." They asked her to sing. She sang sourly. When she spoke, later, it was nearer English than French, nearer dog than English...
...abscess in the ear; in New tonville, Mass., at the home of Secret Service Man Harry L. Barker, who had been his master since the death of President Harding. Laddie Boy preferred sugar and cream in his coffee. He was a half-brother of President Coolidge's dog, Laddie Buck...