Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wardrobe. When, the guard passed out in a speakeasy, remorseful but following expediency Gerguson abandoned the guard. The U. S. Government, irritated, made a manhunt of it. The newspapers made a field-day. Twice smuggled out of Manhattan by friends, Gerguson twice returned to listen to the hound music, lurking dramatically in speakeasies. The publicity made him a Name but denuded him as a Prince. In France he served his terms to the day. His new fame had yielded him only $100 which The New Yorker's Editor Harold Wallace Ross sent on demand as balm for a five...
...Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches who haunted Cheapside. Past the bridge, with its houses jutting over the water, and the traitors' heads stuck up on poles, they hurry on to one of the inns, a warm fire, dinner, and the canary flowing. A huge hound or two yawns about the table for food or crunches a bone on the hearth. Talk is free and boisterous until the fire burns low. Then a young boy, a page or a wandering minstrel, with a lute suspended from a silver cord around his neck, comes in with...
Last week Vol. 1, No. 1 appeared. Selling at 50?, it is handsomely printed in octavo size, resembling Hound & Horn. The first issue had no pages and four pages of half-tones tipped in. Typical of the latter was "The Forgotten Man," an abject figure asleep in a cheap doorway. Contributors to the first issue included such famed economists as John Maynard Keynes ("A New Monetary Policy for England"), Sir Josiah Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard...
DOYLE (A. Conan) Hound of the Bastervilles...
MOTTRAM (R.H.) The Headless Hound and Other Stories. Mint...