Word: kennelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kroener had been a butcher in Germany before he came to the U.S. and got a job as a kennel man with Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, who collected pets. Buddy belonged to Mrs. Lintz; she had bought the little creature from the captain of an African freighter. But Buddy belonged spiritually to Kroener. He helped nurse the little gorilla back to health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage...
...international get-together took place last week at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Japanese spaniels, Italian greyhounds, German shepherds, Russian wolfhounds, English cockers, French poodles, American foxhounds and 87 other breeds met to outshine one another for the crowning glory in a dog's life: the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show...
...West Highland-in appearance a snow-white cousin of the popular Scottie-is a comparative stranger to most U.S. dog fans, though familiar to viewers of Black & White whiskey ads. There are only 120 registered with the American Kennel Club. Wolvey, a four-year-old bitch owned by Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has dominated her breed in 60 shows since coming to the U.S. three years...
...face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live like the Lesters-mangy, flea-and fly-bitten, sore-splotched, in a "filthy and unclean kennel" in Garden City Park, L.I. His wife Katherine explained: Jim picks up strays; most of the animals are 12 to 14 years old, several are blind, they have a naturally neglected look...
...Basenji, a breed recently recognized by the English Kennel Club, are dogs (which cannot bark nor yelp, but only softly "grooo") used in the African Congo for tracking game...