Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the news of Hannes Schnieder and his great Ski School at Arlberg. Here was somebody who had dared to throw tradition to the winds. He was developing a new technique; a sort of mongrel breed, half Swiss, half Norwegian. Schnieder declared, "I don't care how I get down a hill, so long as I reach the bottom standing up!" With the spread of this Arlberg method New England has become Ski-conscious. The interest and necessary nerve have been with us now for two winters, but, till just recently, there...
Third Night The Culbertsons made 13 contracts, were set at eleven. Lenz and Jacoby made twelve, were set at 14. Even Mr. Jacoby, who earlier in the day had been bitten on the right hand by a mongrel dog he was trying to save from being run over on Park Avenue, seemed irritable. Mr. Lenz waited impatiently while Mr. Culbertson superintended the laying of a heavy rug to prevent squeakings & squash-ings. Later he got up from the table, complained to the referee against Cul-bertson's "waste of time." Referees decided that, though Lenz magazine articles inveighed against "psychic...
...band at the powder-works, composed stirring marches. The Marine Band recently tried to get copies of them but found he has given up music, destroyed his manuscripts. His hobby now is his yacht Alicia (named for his second wife), designed by him; his pet is a much pampered mongrel...
...column with sundry information under the title DID YOU KNOW? Last week he asked if his readers knew: "That the pure-blooded dogs brought out by the French colonials to French Indo-China are often garbed in stout canvas pants to assure their offspring against mixture with the local mongrel breed...
...knew what was in the hole. Early in January he had found and adopted a mongrel puppy. But after a few days the puppy, which he called "Bum," disappeared. The same day, the hole over the excavation had been boarded up securely. The engine's noise must have drowned the dog's cries ever since...