Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bullets were still whining past at the rate of five or six a minute. "Suddenly I saw a mangy dog ambling down the avenue. Quickly I pulled out my lunch to tempt him to come closer so I could shield my head behind his flea-bitten body...
...Reversing the trend toward legal betting that started in 1932, Texas last month repealed its 1933 law legalizing booking bets on horse-races and parimutuel bets on dog-races. Fortnight ago the now superfluous Texas Racing Commission received from one Tom Katz of Mesquite a postcard application for a license to operate a cat-racing track. Ingenious Tom Katz, besides describing the electric mice with which he proposed to excite spry young felines, explained that he would also give employment to middle-aged and retired cats by having them chased into holes at the end of a 75-yd track...
When a veterinarian named Solomon Shapera took a house in Eastchester, N. Y. three months ago, he made his presence known by placing upon his lawn a life-size statue of a St. Bernard dog painted in lively colors. Despite the fact that the statue is not iron but stone, the neighborhood named the dog "Iron Mike," but did not suppose there was much that could be done about it. Some people said that since it was Dr. Shapera's business to treat dogs, the statue was an advertisement and therefore violated a district zoning ordinance. The veterinarian retorted...
Sent to train with a field hospital unit at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., he marveled at the amiability of officers who let him bring his dog along, called each other by first names, lay on the grass with the rank & file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas...
...association similar to that of Pan American and Imperial but as unstable as an alliance between cat and dog was formed last week between Germany's Lufthansa and Air France. These two national airlines agreed to cooperate in test flights across the Atlantic, share each other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital...