Word: leashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leash. All U.S. scientists were delighted and touched by the universal friendliness of Soviet scientists. In every branch of science the Russians were eager to meet and talk with Americans. They read American journals, and in most cases are frank to admit that they measure their own progress against American work...
Raucous Jungle. The natural habitat of the Riviera male and female is either a hillside villa, a gleaming yacht or a huge hotel. Who could be a snob and not stay at the Carlton in Cannes? One guest kept three Chihuahuas on leash, another rushed in and out with a live leopard in his arms, and neither attracted much attention. Monte Carlo's sprawling Hotel de Paris had its rooms filled with idle maharajas, well-to-do Americans, lost Frenchmen. Nice's Hôtel Negresco welcomed financiers who kept the switchboard busy with their calls to brokers...
...Leash on Life. In Kansas City, Mo., after the Star ran a front-page sob story about unclaimed dogs that are gassed at the municipal farm, someone clipped a large hole in the farm fence, freed 40 yelping dogs...
...city's 24 foreign-nationality groups, hands out booklets to mothers on the care and feeding of babies, follows golden-wedding anniversaries with fond attention. But of all the Press's features, perhaps none has a more faithful following than a weekly column called "Kennel and Leash," by Dog Editor Maxwell Riddle, 52, whose bark generally has plenty of bite...
...monstrous control panel, and with a rationalized garden in which, of course, nothing grows. But it is when he looks at life on the seamy side that Tati has his grandest inspirations. There is a marvelous sequence, apropos of nothing, in which a dog leads a man on a leash. Yet surely the funniest passage in the picture is the long slow crescendo of comedy in which four hard-eyed, ten-year-old gamblers squat in an empty lot, whistle at passing pedestrians, and make book on which of them will look around, forget where he is going and crash...