Word: lapdog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eternal City on the evening of Oct. 15, 1764. Yet the gestation period for his great work was strangely drawn out. Three years were frittered away on an abortive history of Switzerland. Finally, in 1772, Gibbon settled down in London with six servants, a parrot and a Pomeranian lapdog to write Decline and Fall. He completed it 14 years later, and his success was immediate though not universal. Gibbon swiftly arrived at a celebrity that allowed him to dine with Benjamin Franklin, converse with the Emperor of Austria-and aggravate his own gout. But he and his times were...
...their own. With less than ten days before trial time, he goes on a solo search for the missing gun and the story behind it. Running down false leads and blind alleys, Janssen caroms off a series of star suspects, including Lillian Gish as a septuagenarian lapdog lover, Eleanor Parker as a merry widow whose idea of mourning is martinis with black olives, and George Grizzard as a womanizing airline pilot...
Mitcham then followed his article with a letter written to explain his comments. He attacked Goldwater again and referred to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower as "a lapdog. . .an old futser...