Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said he'd thought of "setting up a little organization to meet and reminisce over the situation." His press secretary had suggested they call it "the Order of the Hot Seat." Nixon vetoed that name, said "I'm calling it the Order of the Hound's Tooth." And so they...
...Hound's Tooth. Meanwhile, Eisenhower's campaign train was still in turmoil. Later on the day that Smith produced his details, Eisenhower himself talked with reporters on his campaign train about the Nixon case. Ike posed for pictures driving an angry fist into his palm. His conversation was not for quotation, but the papers soon blossomed out with stories that Ike would not run on the same ticket with Nixon unless Nixon came out of his trouble "clean as a hound's tooth."* The tabloid New York Mirror reflected the indirect statements in a more direct headline...
...Lincoln lawn, they were confronted by Archeologist Hagan and Miss Virginia Stuart Brown, custodian of the house and a leader of the "leave-it-white" faction. Mr. Hagan was armed with a small piece of Lincoln house board which he had scraped down to a basic color described as "hound-dog yellow." Miss Brown, distressed at the prospect of a hound-dog yellow house, was toting her own piece of the Lincoln house. A discussion (as minutes often note) followed...
Last week in the remote hamlet of Langdale, the Hound Trailing Association, which supervises austerity's fox hunt, had 36 hounds straining at the leash for one of the H.T.A.'s spring trails. Behind the hounds, and mingling with the spectators, a score of bookies (legal in England) were grabbing up money hand over fist as they sang out the fast-changing odds. Suddenly, clambering over the rocky ground, a man appeared, dragging a foul-smelling concoction known as chemerly (rags soaked in a blend of aniseed, turpentine and urine). He was the trail-layer...
...last week's meeting, everything was on the up & up. When the first hound cleared the final obstacle and streaked into the homestretch, the "catchers," i.e., owners and handlers, began whooping up a strictly legal bedlam, whistling shrilly and waving scarves to guide the hounds across the finish line. The winner, and current favorite for the H.T.A. championship: a limpid-eyed, three-year-old dog named Ravensbarrow, whose Lancashire farmer owner, Roger Hudson, proudly collected a poor man's purse...