Word: kennelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After dark the dog tracks and nightclubs are booming. At the West Flagler Kennel Club dog track an average of 3,500 fans nightly bet $100,000. The only wartime brake on nightclub hilarity is the lack of big-name entertainers. Liquor is plentiful, except Scotch, which sells on the black market at $120 a case...
Remark of the week: "Holiday always looks like he was running against a high wind". . . We're committed to secrecy but we can tell you next issue just what well known Dog will crawl into the permanent kennel December 24. . . double if he waits up for Santa...
...core of the story is the irreducible faithfulness of Lassie, a fine female collie, for young Roddy McDowall. Lassie is sold by the boy's father, a dole-starved Yorkshireman, to a dog-fancying Duke. She is mistreated by a vicious kennel flunkey and twice breaks out of her kennel to come home. Then Lassie is taken far north into Scotland, escapes again and heads south with the homing infallibility of a pigeon. Starving, drenched, flinching at thunder, her feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year...
This morning, I found her lying half-dead near her kennel, which she had tried to retake from a vicious 110-pound Doberman who had replaced her. He tore her to ribbons and she was still trying to rise and fight back. She had run from the Colonel that morning and made a beeline for the spot where she usually met me, and she fought this big dog for what she considered her rightful place. The veterinarian, who likes us both, says he will see her well and will intercede to give her another chance...
...bilish sharpness in social, psychological and self-analysis with which few U.S. writers are equipped to compete. A friend of Miss McCarthy's wrote her rom childbed: "Before I read it I felt almost like the Virgin Mary. . . . Now . . . I salute you from the bottom of the kennel...