Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cohorts of organized morcy arrive and whisk away the two damp little recipients of bureaucracy's favor from their hour of glory to an anonymous future at the dog-pound...
President Roosevelt's anti-war speech at Chicago expressed an indignation, shared by every peace-lover on this continent, at the lawlessness of certain powers in the world today. There are few persons who can stand by and watch innocent women and children slaughtered by mad-dog nations without raising a cry of protest, and this speech crystallized these sentiments of horrified disgust that all American men and women feel...
...dangling frozen fish before crocodiles who had to be deluded into thinking they were catching them. By a triumph of nursing and nourishing they brought back alive 1,500 beasts of the field, forest and jungle, best of all 19 birds of paradise, two blue sheep, a Sumatran wild dog, four giraffes from the Sudan, and for Susie an eligible young husband named Wrestler who took delight in shaking hands...
...Basenji is a smallish, chestnut-brown African dog, sturdy, compact and bony. Catlike, it slinks, catlike washes its face with its paws. The name means ''bush thing." Unique characteristic of the Basenji is that it does not bark; it utters only one noise, "GROOO!" Breeders be lieve its lineage can be traced back to the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty. Since then countless generations of Africans, legend says, have succeeded in breeding out its bark, for the sake of silence not in the home but on the hunt...
Year ago a Mrs. Olivia Burn brought from Africa the first Basenjis England had ever seen. Last February she exhibited them at Cruft's Coronation Dog Show in London and caused something of a sensation...