Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pronounced correctly "dahks-hoont," mispronounced "dash-hound...
...broods over the opening scene. A vast, shaggy, Rabelaisian music master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...
...Farmer Fred Burdsall, the hound's owner, Sportsman Fisher then explained that dogs were a nuisance yelping at six o'clock in the morning. Farmer Burdsall marvelled to hear this, for Sportsman Fisher, as a member of the Fairfield and Westchester County Hounds, must often have arisen as early as six o'clock to chase foxes in his fine red coat behind a whole pack of hounds baying past the sleepy neighbors' windows. Sportsman Fisher offered Farmer Burdsall $200 damages for the dead hound. Farmer Burdsall declined...
Sportsman Fisher reminded Farmer Burdsall of his emphatic "No Trespassing" signs. Farmer Burdsall replied that his hound could not read...
...printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt?" In a jazzed age no news hound delved through the reference "morgue" of his paper to turn up the great story of Conkling, Platt, Garfield and James G. Blaine. But for the tangled interplay of their rapier politics Garfield would never have been President, nor would the name of Blaine awaken potent memories. Yet, instead of recalling...