Word: lop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Longest row of boxes was occupied by short-legged, lop-eared cocker spaniels, which topped this year's entry list with 161. Excellent gun dogs, they are steadily becoming more popular as pets. With all six finalists in the ring upstairs foreign-bred, a cocker named The Great My Own was last week named best U.S.-bred dog in the show. Not since 1922 has a U.S.-bred dog won best-in-show at Westminster...
...best at. Gauguin laughed all the way to the town brothel. There one of the girls told van Gogh that if he could not give her a five-franc piece for a Christmas present he might at least make her a gift of one of his big lop-ears. Next day, with no apparent provocation, van Gogh hurled an absinthe glass at Gauguin. The day following, he left a parcel at the brothel. It was his right ear, which he had cut off, wrapped up with clumsy neatness. Gauguin left, and soon after the Mayor ordered van Gogh locked...
...last thing to get the axe. It is quite true, as the Report charges, that these institutions have been guilty of reckless expansion. But most of that has already been wiped out by previous programs of contraction in the early years of the depression. Little remains but to lop off expenditures and salaries...
Proving their scoring power in the 13-4 win over Brae Burn in the Garden on Wednesday evening the players have high hopes for a continuation of the winning streak which began when they toppled Brown in Providence by the lop-sided score of 15-3. After losing on foreign ice to Princeton in the first of a two-game series, the Crimson came back to nose out the Tiger in a hard-fought 5-4 tilt in the Garden on Saturday, January 21, with Wolcott clinching the game by a tally late in the last period...
Last week the National Economy League, organized last summer by Archibald Roosevelt & friends to lop some $450,000.000 from the $1,000,000,000-per-year appropriations for veterans, went into action at the Capitol for the first time as a political lobby. Pitted against the League is the full force of the American Legion and its super-lobby...