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Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Englewood, N. J. friends of the Lindberghs reported that their new Scotch terrier Thor, when commanded: "Go take the little dog for a walk." seizes the leash of Skene, the other Lindbergh Scottie, marches it proudly around the estate. Into the new beauty parlor she was opening on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Hocked the friends of Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy* for a housewarming. Tall, plump, blonde, Proprietress Christy was the famed illustrator's chief model for eight years before she became his second wife. Rumania's King...
Because Poet-Laureate John Masefield's U.S. manager booked him for only one lecture in Canada, the Toronto Telegram headlined: A LION ON A LEASH AND THAT LEASH U.S.A. Newsmen recalled the New York Telegraph's headline upon the occasion that the late Poet-Laureate Robert Bridges refused interviews in the U.S.: KING'S CANARY REFUSES TO CHIRP...
...Maurois found it by accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe them to yourself and to the godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound?" There lies Mr. Maurois's purpose. That is why he likes Kipling. Carnehan and Dravot have made Disraeli and Byron live again...
...would like to kill you!" This is because she has trifled with the affections of a morose young traveler (Edmund Lowe) just returned from sojourning with aborigines. He has paid her back by abducting her to his shooting lodge and attaching her to a leash intended for pet bears...
...Mallard's practice of controlling his Angora by a leash, a common practice in Manhattan, had the Society's approval. His domesticated Angora's chasing the squirrel was a pat example of the Society's strongest argument-that cats are killers. It suggested better than words the late John Burrough's contention that each cat in the U. S. kills on the average 50 birds a year. And it made unnecessary a photograph the society sought to take last week of a house cat stalking a stuffed bird rubbed with stale fish...