Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, 58, went walking on the beach at Skagen with her two fox terriers. When a mongrel attacked the terriers, the Queen attacked the mongrel, was so severely bitten she feared she could not go to King Gustav V of Sweden's 80th birthday party...
...tell its story, Trojan Incident leaps frenziedly in all directions, snatches at pantomime, dancing, choral singing like merry-go-round riders snatching at a brass ring. Artistically a desecration of Greek drama, Trojan Incident has nevertheless a mongrel excitement of its own: the tale flushes with pathos and movement, and some of Wallingford Riegger's music, such as the narrative chant The Song of the Horse, gives the story a rhythmic speed...
Died. Bonita, 21, mongrel fox terrier which sulked three days beneath the coffin of her owner, the late Horticulturist Luther Burbank while he lay in state after his death in 1926; of old age; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
...Workshop of the Air" (producer of Archibald MacLeish's radio play in verse, Fall of the City, Stephen Vincent Benét's Paid Revere). The Captain who expected people to bow down was, it appeared, a Fascist, for his "Purple Shirts" aimed to exterminate "the mongrel race." Mr. Musiker, the composer who wanted to present to someone a tune that was running through his head, found the Purple Shirts anything but worthy of it. Nor did he like the silly way Mrs. Arbutus, a Park Avenue matron, sang it. Finally, after Mr. Musiker's tune...
...Setters went for two or three dollars each. Ragged farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children put pets up for auction, tremblingly saw them sold, burbled as they received them back from laughing purchasers. Lowest price of the day: fifty cents for a mongrel. Highest price of the day: $55 for a pointer. (One dog, however, was sold privately for $250.) Biggest thrill to Auctioneer Kinsey: selling to Radio Announcer Larry Elliot for $7 a dog on which its owner had placed a value...