Word: kennel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when he painted the Queen and the prince smugly relaxing after a hunt while a little princess royal frolics in a clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits. But it was not only his Victorian smugness that caused his failure. Said Critic...
...uninitiated, a dog is merely an animal big enough to chase a cat. But chosen as the U.S.'s best dog last week was a tiny, 9½in. bit of ebony fluff that would make any kitten feel like a tiger. The winner at the Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden: Ch. Cappoquin Little Sister, a toy poodle who rode triumphantly away from the rubber-sheeted arena in her own silver-plated trophy bowl...
Called "Sister" for short, the new champion is an aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show...
...consecutive successful double steals with a teammate named Casey Sten gel, established the modern National League standard of 738 thefts. After re tiring, he returned to the Dodgers as man ager in 1932 and 1933, was, until his re lease three weeks ago, racing judge at the Miami Beach Kennel Club. But like many another survivor of the day when the ball was dead and the Players' Pension Fund unborn, Max Carey, now approaching 71, last week listed his total assets as "social security and a house with a big mortgage...
...Maunalua Bay. It has a YMCA-size swimming pool, a restaurant-size kitchen, built-in movie equipment and wallpaper covered with the HJK monogram that Kaiser puts on most of his possessions. In true Kaiser style, even his poodles live like kings, with a covered exercise area in their kennel of gold-anodized aluminum, a trophy room, a maternity ward and a beauty salon-all soundproofed...