Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown swore that Mr. Farley had described Senator Black to him as a "publicity hound." Mr. Farley swore he had done no such thing. Either the Postmaster General or the ex-Postmaster General was a liar...
Spotless as alabaster statues were the greyhound Lilly of Devoir and the big French poodle Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace. The tight white coat of the wire-haired fox terrier Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston was hound-marked with tan; the silky white of the pointer Benson of Crombie marked with liver. Snowflake, the Old English sheepdog, looked like a fresh snow drift blanketed with fine blue-grey ash. Only the Pekingese Wu Foo of Kingswere showed no white in its tawny-red fluff. The final judging lasted 20 minutes. Dr. Jarrett watched the six prize-winners as they circled...
...painting for 40 years, had a one-man show of water colors, oils and prints last week. There were portraits, landscapes of Maine, Canada, North & South Carolina, and an effective series of diamond point etchings of West Virginia mountaineers with their cabins, their sad-eared mules, their hound dogs. But for all its felicity of line one fact alone lifted this exhibition into prominence. It was the work of Harrison Cady, known to millions of children as the Peter Rabbit Man (he has made some 7,000 drawings of Peter), the indefatigable illustrator of the syndicated nature stories of Thornton...
...veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling recruits. Reeling southward last week the rebels paused briefly at a new capital, Chang-chow. From the coast and from the north, more Chiang troops came to hound General Tsai and his army into the back country...
...auditors who knew that Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World Waits is based on fact "in no sense other than purely creative." Commander Hartley (Blaine Cordner), an affable, scout-masterish publicity hound, is in such a glow over U. S. annexation of Antarctica that he is not aware his men call him a tinplate hero behind his back, or that his pompous planting of flags and food caches has consumed precious time which might prevent the relief ship from getting through the fast...