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Word: hounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unseen friends, been ribbed to death, my pretty little wife isn't quite sure whether she wants to be seen with me in Public Places, and strangers write me that I am only one shade handsomer than that dude Angel the wrestler, but I have a hound dog that sure still thinks that I am kind of nice. So I don't care. And I'm not worried. And I am going to keep right on digging wells and probably getting spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Said Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, U. S. trust-hound: ". . . Most important decision on the subject that has ever been handed down by any court. The decision goes far beyond the oil industry. It will serve as a guide to the Department in our general investigation of patents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: A Knock for Ethyl | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Book Three the idiot Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow. Mink Snopes murders a widower named Houston. The villagers, to cure the idiot of "stock-diddling," slaughter the cow and require him to eat of her. In a gruesome scene Houston's hound attacks Mink. Mink is caught and jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius- | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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