Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cutting the mystically hazy aura which has enshrouded the charm of Oxford's weathered stones and deeply rooted ivy, we are grateful. There has been too much affected anglomania in our seats of learning. Discontent with our mongrel methods has painted the British pastures a brighter hue of emerald green...
...another maxim: "The Irish Free State is not Irish, is not Free, and is not a State." Small ingenuity is needed to support this very logical thesis, and the Countess gave to it all her great energies, demanding that a true "Irish Republic" be established, "instead of our present mongrel specimen of a 'Dominion...
Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...
...Skipper' is only a mongrel dog who loiters about the campus of Furnam University, Greenville, S. C., yet three students have been expelled from the school by vote of the student council because of him. The youths cut off his right ear with a razor, inclosed it in a envelope with a note and slipped it under the door of his master's room...
...whole truth. Now please let me apologize for "raking you over the coals." There are worse magazines than TIME - bunches of them! When I opened my "back mail" upon landing I found half a dozen magazines trying to boptlick up onto my doormat with "premium offers," like so many mongrel puppies...