Word: hound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Yard (campus), a yellow and white hound-dog, weight 35 pounds, watched some squirrels at play, stalked them, sprang, flattened a young squirrel under his paw. The pinioned creature twisted this way and that, emitting sharp, tiny screams of pain. Down from the trees ran the other squirrels. They surrounded the dog and curled their whiskered lips, making a snarling noise. Now it was the hound-dog's turn to cringe; it was his turn to squeal with agony as the squirrel under his paw twisted around, bit his forefoot-as the other squirrels sprang upon his flanks...
...Iron Chancellor" was summoned, early one morning in his roistering student days, to give an account of his misdeeds to the Rector of his college. Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille. Becoming annoyed during the conversation which ensued, he picked up the Rector's inkstand, flung it at his head, missed, and strode from the office with the boar hound at heel...
...forbidden the son of an undertaker to have his lighter moments, that an undertaker is usually called upon after a doctor has failed in his work. Undertaking may not be a branch of Medicine, but at least it is a worthy and dignified occupation deserving no reproof. EWELL HOUND. TIME had no intention of promoting an interprofessional controversy in its columns and herewith terminates discussion of this mooted point. Henceforth, as heretofore, items about morticians will appear under the heading MEDICINE...
...terrier was first bred in the valley of the River Aire (tributary to the Ouse), in England. The old English Terrier, a strong, fearless dog, good for vermin and dead game, lacked a good sense of smell. So the people of the Aire valley crossed it with the Otter Hound, making it keen-scented and giving it better watermanship. Other crosses were made to improve the breed. The dogs were first known as Waterside Terriers. The Airedale Agricultural Society, at a farm show, held the first exhibition of this class of dogs in 1879, and decided to give them...
...unable to play any musical instrument; if in a ball game, the pitcher should "walk" him, it would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle in red crayon around the advertisement of Mr. Slack, threw it in a basket, sent it to the City Editor, who handed it to a Bright Young Reporter. To Stamford, Conn., hastened the B. Y. R. His nostrils quivered also. Headmaster Slack...