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Among Dr. Pick's patients: a man with a broken nose and mastiff jowls, who took to crime, he said, after his young son remarked: "Daddy, you look just like a bad man. Why don't you change your face?" Dr. Pick changed his face, and daddy is now a law-abiding delicatessen dealer...
Elliott Roosevelt's famed Apriority bull mastiff, Blaze, 125 lbs., won a bloody encounter with 20-lb. Fala on the lawn at) Hyde Park. He lost to Malvina Thompson, Eleanor Roosevelt's companion-secretary. When Blaze charged in a surprise attack, plucky Miss Thompson snatched the Scottie into her, arms. Blaze leaped. He got 1) Fala, 2) Miss Thompson (on the left index finger). Blaze tried to finish Fala. Miss Thompson conked Blaze with a rock. Fala went to the vet for a patching-up, Blaze (by Elliott's order) went to the vet to be destroyed...
...right, he said. It was a pedigreed English bull mastiff named Blaze Hero, one of two he had bought in England and taken to the U.S., in a war-weary B17. Before returning to duty, he had asked an A.T.C. friend to fly Blaze out to his wife, Cinemactress Faye Emerson, in Hollywood, if an empty plane happened to be going that way. That was all he knew about it. Was there a fuss...
...temper would get him on his feet, and if he could not get the Speaker's attention, he would hack petulantly away on the arm of his chair with a penknife. The old man (80) has a somewhat high-pitched voice, corkscrewing oddly out of his mastiff jowls; his stature is small and his build square. But his bulldog face, his straight-backed bearing, his scraggly walrus mustache, and his command of epithet have given him a compelling ferocity...
After Waterloo. Politics and his infatuation for Napoleon at last became an obsession. Wherever Hazlitt went, complained one of his friends, he took his politics "like a mastiff, by his side." Cried Hazlitt: "There was at no time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments." After Waterloo, Hazlitt sank into unkempt despair. While Poet Laureate Southey and Poet Laureate-to-be Wordsworth celebrated Britain's victory with "boiled plum puddings" eaten al fresco by the light of blazing tar barrels, Hazlitt "walked about, unwashed, unshaved, hardly sober...