Word: gudmundsson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...started when one dog owner refused to pay her fine. She was jailed for two days and released after the case attracted howling attention from the press. To poodle a little more excitement into the story, the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service sought reactions from, among others, Finance Minister Albert Gudmundsson. Readily admitting that he owned a fetching 13-year-old mongrel named Lucy, Gudmundsson unleashed a counterattack against the capital's law. If pooch came to shove, he barked, he would neither part with Lucy nor pay a fine that he considered silly and a violation of human rights...
...Gudmundsson refuses to heel. "Lucy is as much a part of the family as my children," growls the father of three. "Rather than part with her, we will emigrate and I will quit politics." Despite his dogged stand, the Finance Minister is on fairly safe ground: he may be in the doghouse, but as a member of parliament he cannot be jailed. Before things become irretrieverable, one wag suggests, why not transfer Gudmundsson to Iceland's United Nations delegation in New York? New Yorkers, after all, are not only accustomed to putting on the dog, but putting up with...
| 1 |