Word: greyhound
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...which look us to the heights of expectant excitement only to let us down quite too suddenly after all was to see someone off on a trip to Europe. At this season of the year with the so-called spring fever attacking everyone, to put foot within an "ocean greyhound", a "floating metropolis" or what not is enough to cause even the most stolid to think twice before deciding definitely not to stow away. The writing of this little tribute to insanity and mental vagrancy is fairly definite proof that no such glorious prank was played on the steamship company...
There was a lonely saluki, or gazelle hound, the only one of its species ever seen in Manhattan, a sly dog that looked for all the world like a cross between a collie and a greyhound. There were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them...
Here is a play with "a punch." Nor is it the first of that sort which its author. Mr. Paul Armstrong, has done. Earlier this season we saw his "Deep Purple," while "The Greyhound," his latest product, is a current New York success. The offering at the Plymouth is more than generously supplied with thrills, and yet, on the whole, is so skilfully constructed and acted as to rise very high above the conventional play of the type...
Secondly, "The City of Lowell," the Long Island Soud Greyhound which the party boards at New London, possesses numerous facilities for the comfort and pleasure of her student passengers. A Table d'Hote dinner and meals a la carte is served at cost. Music is furnished by a skilled orchestra in the spacious cafe of the steamer, and berths are free...
...Sale-A greyhound pup three months old; color, white and fawn. He was sired by "Memnon," ex "Stealing Away," both imported dogs. "Memnon" has more first prizes to his credit than any other greyhound in the world. "Stealing Away" has only been exhibited twice in America, winning first and second specials each time. Price $75. Can be seen at stable, corner Walnut Avenue and Elmore streets, Roxbury...