Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next week the union will convene in Toledo, Ohio. Present, besides delegates from 2,600 locals, will be Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Governors Davey of Ohio and Murphy of Michigan. Dignitaries though they are, it is doubtful whether they will be able to steal the limelight from a mongrel dog, 40 years dead...
High in the backwoods 14 miles from the Tennessee River opposite Guntersville, Ala. lived 75-year-old Grandma Georgia LeMaster, a shrunken little woman writh a thin, still face and hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust...
...neighborhood mongrel dog was blamed for the freak. Dog and mother cat had fought all through her gestation. Mrs. Gannon's neighbors argued that those fights had marked the kittens. Henry Sternberger, who photographed the catdog and named it Nonesuch, thought that cat and dog might have mated. In any case, decided he, this was a freak in which the American Genetic Association should be interested...
Storm Over Patsy (by James Bridie; Theatre Guild, producer). Small but perfect in its way, this comedy comes from the German of Bruno Frank by way of the Scotch of Playwright Bridie (A Sleeping Clergyman). Patsy, over whom the storm rages, is a charming mongrel called Colonel in real life. He is about to be executed because his very Irish owner (Sara Allgood of The Plough and the Stars) is unable to pay his long-overdue license fee. This innocent situation causes the town provost's political career to be ruined, for his decision to execute un licensed Patsy...
Died. Rags, 20, famed moppy-white mongrel mascot of the A.E.F.'s First Division; of old age; in Washington, D. C. Picked up in a Montmartre alley in 1918, Rags served five months in frontline trenches, carried messages to the rear, was gassed and wounded in action...