Word: hounded
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...down and raise a family but, said he last week, "It's swell for getting experience. I expect to stay there for a few more years-at least until the war is over." Next month, after seeing his girl (a WAAC), he will return, start "letting those Eskimos hound me to death again." Further incentive for being hounded to death: $1,000-$2,000 a month gross, which has allowed Dr. Kennedy to pay all his debts and show a nice profit. In the U.S. he would be lucky if he were making final payments on his office furniture...
...Blue Bulldog and he's been biting at Johnnie Harvard's heels for nigh onto 60 years now, but there won't be a trace of senility in the Eli hound's growl when he rushes onto his home greensward to grapple with the Crimson this Saturday in the sixty-first clash of the ivied classic, which started in the same year that the "new dining-club at Memorial Hall" served its first lamb and mint jelly...
...taught that a nation with a good navy was a nation able to protect its trade routes. A nation with protected trade routes was a prosperous nation, able to support a good navy. The one thesis upheld the other in a solid arch. But now the flat-topped, hound-fast carrier had suddenly become sea power's capital ship. Unregenerate airmen, in the hearing of brooding seadogs, said the carrier outmoded the battleship. Air-power partisans supported them...
...promise, and contented himself drinking ale with Gaffer Sitherthwick and John Willie Braithwaite in The Spread Eagle and with explaining the mysteries of politics to a delightful collie bitch (who could talk). Then war caught up with Sam. As an auxiliary constable, with the help of an affectionate hound and a length of lead pipe, he caught two Nazi spies; later he felt forced to use his forbidden talent once again, to save England. In the course of that adventure he had to talk to Hitler ("Heil you!" said Sam, "Heil me!" Adolf replied) and, before he could...
...everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked page boys . . . and, of course, the demimondaines who sat professionally in the lobby." Warned Bratianu-beard, "Watch your step, Madame, and confide in nobody except in us." Said the Grey hound: "Nous sommes les seules personnes discrètes a Bucharest...