Word: halleston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrier at Cruft's. his homebred Airedale Ch. Shelterock Modest Smasher was named best of breed at Westminster. But a few hours later the fox terrier which had beat Merry Sovereign for the group award year ago, also put Modest Smasher down-all white Ch. Flornell Spicypiece of Halleston, winner of best in show in 1937 and a favorite...
...Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound. Other finalists were Torohill Smoky and the best terrier, a pert little wire-haired bitch named Flornell Spicypiece of Halleston...
...Spicypiece to the winning stall, did not bother to rank the rest. Said he afterward: "She came as close to perfection as one could ask." For Spicypiece's owner. Broker Stanley J. Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y., her win meant a double distinction. His Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, also a wire-haired terrier but no kin to Spicypiece, took best in show at Westminster in 1934. For young Peter Garvan there was solid consolation...
...stallion, of famed Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan? . . . Finally Judge Jarrett waved the two-year-old fox terrier bitch, Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, into the winning stall...
...champion was imported from England two months ago by Stanley Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y. Last week lay spectators admired the immense dignity, weighty as a Newfoundland's, with which she comported herself in the ring. But Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston did not win their hearts until, at the very moment when Judge Jarrett was naming her U. S. Dog of the Year, she slipped her leash and frisked across the ring as saucily as though her name were...