Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swingin' the Dream, a jitterbug version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, opened a week earlier; but no self-respecting Bard-hunter would stalk such mongrel prey...
When the earth began to rumble and mongrel dogs to moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...
Then they stopped, like a mongrel dog pack, and began fighting among themselves. Anarchist hated Communist almost as much as he hated Rebel. Trotskyist bickered with Stalinist. Good bourgeoisie were horrified at the confiscation of private property. The Catalan autonomists resented even the least suggestion from Madrid...
...Yale is afforded a last gasp to redeem herself architecturally," says the News, referring to the off-criticized mongrel variety of Yale's architecture. "Grimly we recognize the implausibility of a functional building in the midst of Gothic-Georgian-Renaissance-Egyptian settings, but if we must have our new college unit in one of these outmoded and clumsy styles, let us at least have it all of one piece...
Duchess Dumpy San José is a sturdy black mongrel (Doberman pinscher & Irish setter) bitch belonging to Horticulturist Harvey C. Stiles. About a month ago, Mrs. Stiles held a dollar bill out to Dumpy and said, "Doesn't that smell nice?" Few days later, Dumpy turned up carrying in her mouth a dollar bill, which she pressed on her mistress. Next day she brought home another dollar. Each day for the following fortnight Dumpy brought home a dollar a day, never more, never less. Some of the bills were old-issue, large-sized dollars, most were current certificates. Only...