Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senatorial cynics dryly agreed last week that the world was safe, because New Hampshire's Charles William Tobey had it on his shoulders again. Senator Tobey, a somewhat skinny Atlas, is a rumpled, furious man with a vivid imagination and a hound-keen nose for trouble-a word indissolubly connected in Mr. Tobey's mind with Franklin Roosevelt...
...Orange & Dirty Stories." Versatile as she is, mankind is probably not so much affected by the Lawrence looks and talent as by the enduring Lawrence charm. She suggests the rakish, amusing, grey hound-style young women who in the middle '205 obsessed the fastidious heroes of Michael Aden's novels of Mayfair. Actually this Mayfairian tone is something Gertie only gradually acquired. She did not come to the theatre from England's upper crust. Born in London on July 4, 1898, baptized as Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen, she was the daughter of a Danish interlocutor of a traveling minstrel...
...Meantime, in Illinois, the Committee's Senator Clyde M. Reed, Republican, stalked the Kelly-Nash covert, with a reluctant Democratic Senator, Lister Hill, at his side. Senator Hill can outbay a Baskerville hound on occasion, but this was not one of them. While witnesses came forth to say that politicians bought the vote of flophouse residents for 25?, 50? or a shot of liquor, cynical Chicagoans watched with only half an eye. Too many times they had seen that covert drawn blank...
Possum In Elherton Ga. a hound named Buck incapacitated by a broke leg went hunting with Sheriff John Starke. Pushed in a wheelbarrow, he treed three possiums without once leaving his seat...
That the R. A. F. was still well satisfied with its estimate of results in last fortnight's raid on Sylt was shown last week when the man who planned that attack was promoted. Lean, hound-jawed Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, 54, Commander in Chief of the Bomber Command, was made Inspector General of R. A. F. and one of its four Marshals. To make way for him, Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, 62, stepped out voluntarily.* Both men are air veterans of World War I, younger Sir Edgar having the more brilliant record as a fighting pilot. Sir Edward...