Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fist string forward line looked about the best it has all year, and before the afternoon was ever, it had slammed in a total of 12 goals against a mongrel "B" eleven with Phil Potter and Gaston Azcarraga doing most of the scoring...
...with the added shillings earned by sons John (14), Frank (12) and Leonard (11) as errand boys, motherly Mrs. Naylor has sometimes found it hard to pay the rent on their poky brick cottage and feed a family of 17, not to mention the two cats (Monty & Piddly), a mongrel dog, Billy the canary, two pigs, 16 chickens and a duck. Nevertheless, says Mrs. Naylor of her brood: "I wouldn't be without one of them...
Daughter of the late, famed Harvard economist, Helen Taussig was a Radcliffe tennis champion, still eats and swims heartily, lavishes her affection on a large, undisciplined mongrel named Spot. She took over the Johns Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic in 1930, is so deeply absorbed in her work that she seldom gets home until 9 p.m. A major aversion: the press, ever since she felt that the recent wave of publicity on her work with blue babies had hurt her professionally (to the medical mind, publicity often ranks high among the more loathsome diseases...
...Harrison Williams, famed for her just-so hair, parties and clothes, lost her Micky, the much-photographed beige mongrel that had constantly kept her company in all the best places. Micky, whom she picked up in Capri in the '303, died in Manhattan at the age of twelve (kidney trouble...
...landed on LIFE, which had recently dubbed him-on the basis of a poll of top-ranking Washington correspondents-the "worst man in the Senate." Chugged Bilbo: "This leftish, communistically, pink-colored, mongrel magazine . . . mean, dirty, subtle, libelous...