Word: griffon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan he lives at the Hotel Astor, but he likes Milan better. He always dines in his own apartment, eats little and preferably Italian food. Like Lord Rothermere and Il Duce (see page 18), he never smokes. He sleeps five hours a night, with his dog Pictiu, a Brussels griffon given him by Frances Alda, beside him in a basket. He shaves himself-and with a safety razor...
...revisits Brittany, subdues its horrid Griffon, and, seeing "the still white fire of her necessity," learns to "lavish the comfort of kind lies" on the other Isolt, a child with grey eyes...
...Bride, airedale, owned by the Davishill Kennels-a beautiful bitch, champion of an airedale class in which there were 2,097 entries. Her body was a tapering cone, her forelegs struts, her hindlegs coiled springs. Sunny Meade Petit Poilu, Brussels griffon, owned by Mrs. William D. Goff, strutted among the others, well knowing that he would have made but a scant meal for any one of them, but looking at the mountainous beasts, his rivals, with a gaze of bleak hauteur. Long silky hair clothed his bandy legs in elegance and provided him with a beard which would have commanded...