Word: greyhound
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...Correct Transliteration of Russian Proper Names." Another is the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the [British] Empire. In the current issue of the Society's Journal, E. J. Harding discusses a species of fauna whose preservation seems extremely unlikely. This is the astoundingly fleet "Greyhound Pig," which in western Ireland a century and a half ago was frequently used as a leader of hunts...
...Greyhound Pig" is believed extinct, but Mr. Harding revived the memory of a sporting classic recorded in Sharkey's Racing Calendar for 1794. That year a "Greyhound Pig" was pitted against a race horse, the pig's backers being allowed to egg it on by whistling and shouting at the halfway mark and finish line. The pig won by a few feet, its owner taking...
Bobby stood under sentence of death. He had killed a cat, although the cat had unmistakably struck him first. A few years ago he had saved a child from drowning, but nobody counted that. Bobby was a 13-year-old greyhound, rich in the love of Charles Harold Stuart Parsons, optician and magician of Sheffield...
...wits in the battalion is working on a treatise entitled, "Mistaken identify, or the Greyhound drivers get shoulder boards," but any similarity between this literary effort and a current Alnav is to be denied...
...less essential than the dogs, but far better known, are the bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...