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...Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one William Connors yanked powerfully on the leash of his police dog, Alex, when the latter, growling savagely, made a sudden leap at a passing woman. The woman screeched, fled. The dog turned, sprang at its master who, burly, sank his fingers in the dog's throat as he was knocked flat. For six minutes man and dog writhed on the sidewalk, snapping, shouting, snarling, grunting. Then the dog groaned, fell limply over, wheezed, died. Police dog experts admitted Alex had "gone wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boy | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

Behind the pitching of Sanford the Red and Blue nine hit hard and timely to tally 11 runs on 12 hits. Sanford's ability to bear down in the pinches was absent in the work of the Crimson pitchers, who were unable to hold in leash the visitors hits whenever hits meant runs. Captain Tremper of Pennsylvania drove out a home run with two men on the basepaths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARRAGE FROM RED AND BLUE HITTERS LAYS CRIMSON LOW | 4/30/1927 | See Source »

...fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed in to her with his sharp terrier teeth. Then the Legs-in-Authority brought the romantic black stranger up from San Remo on a leash and put him-oh, outrage!-into the goat house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...Winter is in her face, a careful, formal face held in cautious leash to mask whatever emotions rage behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Intrusive | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...down of ordinary white hens, glued on the silk, painted red. In London, dead silver foxes have long been smartly worn around the neck. Recently Mrs. F. P. Long (Philadelphia) appeared in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning parade with a silver fox docilely scampering beside her on a leash. On a nearby street Lady Mary Paston was seen leashed to a small African tree bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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