Word: leash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front page, the Denver Post reached the peak of a campaign to prove that dogs are "man's best friend." The Post was all out to block an anti-dog ordinance in the city council that would virtually force dog owners to keep their pets on a leash or shut up in yards of homes. On its back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage." As dogs do every time, the man-eater struck a "cute 1'il WoozyOzzums" pose when the postal inspector...
...well-known individual," Miss Vanderbilt seems to feel, will just have to "endure" them-unless a "damaging" story warrants a libel suit. Apparently aware that some of her readers are not trying to avoid columnists, she blandly adds: "The debutante who . . . enters a nightclub with a gazelle on a leash can be virtually sure [of] a line of print somewhere...
Schroeder said that the Massachusetts Council of Young Republican Clubs plans to present Nixon with a "super fancy" dog collar and leash for his now famous pup, Checkers...
...pockets. Then she taps each in; there is never doubt about which ball is going into which pocket. Buford Weldy, played by Johnny Stewart, is one of the destructive type. Immediately, it is made clear that Weldy's parents are divorced, his mother holds him on a gold plated leash, and that he has a reputation for jumping any girl he meets. For these reasons Weldy hangs around with a group of suburban Amboy Dukes, whom his mother detests, rather than a young grind called Vernon, whom everybody else detests. Driven to extremes by constant date refusals, Weldy goes...
Last week in the remote hamlet of Langdale, the Hound Trailing Association, which supervises austerity's fox hunt, had 36 hounds straining at the leash for one of the H.T.A.'s spring trails. Behind the hounds, and mingling with the spectators, a score of bookies (legal in England) were grabbing up money hand over fist as they sang out the fast-changing odds. Suddenly, clambering over the rocky ground, a man appeared, dragging a foul-smelling concoction known as chemerly (rags soaked in a blend of aniseed, turpentine and urine). He was the trail-layer...