Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Spencer Chaplin, defendant in the paternity suit (TIME, Jan. 1) brought by his onetime protegee Joan Berry, was conspicuously absent from the Los Angeles courtroom when Miss Berry's bush-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott, 77, roared his final plea to the jury. Samples: "This pestiferous, lecherous hound. . . . I'm sorry he isn't here so I could . . . hand it to him right on the chin. . . . Did you ever hear the story of Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt...
wants to go to town Liberty hound...
Heavy eater Chow hound...
...attitude towards this sudden, enormous popularity is rather baffled ("I can't pick my nose in public any more"). Equally, it is frank and heartfelt: "God," he says, "I hope it lasts." He understands his fans all the more sympathetically because he is still a celebrity hound himself. To meet Ronald Colman is still a breath-taking event...
There follows a complex, legerdemainiac series of situations depicting the search for Gorgon's FATHER. The combined efforts of Barnaby, O'Malley and Atlas the Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...