Word: hounded
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...accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe them to yourself and to the godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound?" There lies Mr. Maurois's purpose. That is why he likes Kipling. Carnehan and Dravot have made Disraeli and Byron live again...
...Clarke decided to return to the U. S. at once. Two other financiers of the expedition left with him - Eldridge R. Fenimore Johnson and Samuel Hoopes. Already back in the U. S. are David Newell, organizer of the hound pack which the expedition has been using to trail and bay big South American game, and his younger brother John Newell, who made records of jungle sounds before he took ill last summer...
...certainly gay," said Amos Parrish last week. "Women will look taller this fall. . . . And of course they will not be wearing their hats on the backs of their heads. Fashion is now tilting her hat forward over the right eye." Alert, keen, Forecaster Parrish senses style trends like a hound after a badger. From chart records of styles for the last ten years, from reports of scouts stationed on street corners in 50 big U. S. cities he analyzes what most women will wear. He reports his findings to merchants, saves many from heading wrong. Last spring after his scouts...
...dead of night, in a howling snow-storm last week the special train of Their Majesties the King & Queen of Siam entered the U. S. at Portal, N. Dak. Lean farm families and their shivering hound dogs crowded the snow-swept platform, pressed close to the brightly lighted train, peered at the Oriental monarch as at an orchid in a showcase...
Accidents do seem to occur; but all accidents must be explained before people form their own theories about ships "blowing up" and "crashing in flames" or "falling apart in the air" and being "hurtled to the ground". Seeking some spectacular bit of news an ambitious news hound will feature anything and exploit it to the limits of his imagination. That is what readers crave...