Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie's gift was obtained in New Bedford, Mass., by Artist Milton Delano (a distant and Republican relative of F.D.R.'s), who spent 160 hours etching the Presidential Seal into the ivory and another 80 hours polishing it as clean as a hound's tooth. Jackie commissioned Delano for the job last summer. At that time. the townspeople of Fairhaven. Mass., presented the President with another, smaller whale's tooth, on which Delano had etched Jack's likeness. The President was so delighted with it that Jackie decided he ought to have another...
...suggests only that they huddle together for animal warmth in their loneliness. In the psychic fatigue of her voice, there is a fox at bay, and one hears, imaginatively, the sound so muted the rest of the evening, the distant, electrifying yelps of the white world's hound pack...
...Will Rogers and Darryl Zanuck played polo nearby, stopped so often at the hotel bar that it was and is still called the Polo Lounge. There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room urinal, affixed it to his lapel and crashed a swank party as a newspaperman. But of more lasting interest was the hotel's impeccable service, a concept originally executed by, and credited to. the Beverly Hills...
...Hound that stood guard in front of the Hare and Hound Tavern in Syracuse has all the elegance of the live animal itself...
More sophisticated (and more expensive) testers smile pityingly at such questions, pointing out that no booze hound, no matter how shaky he feels when he fills out the test, is going to admit to his future boss that he takes a slug when he wakes up each morning. The sophisticated testers are more "psychological," although many of them are not psychologists. They rely on supposedly cheatproof tests, asking their subjects to complete sly sentences ("My greatest fear . . ." "What pains me . . ."), flashing Rorschach inkblots, or as in the sample above, asking the testee to draw figures. Author Gross includes...