Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home Lover. In Seattle, the King "ounty Humane Society six times found a home for Steko, a 68-lb. stray mongrel, six times saw him come sneaking back to the pound, once from 100 miles away, at ast found the dog a "permanent" address in Petersburg, Alaska, on Mitkof Island...
Bred to Order. Listed today by the Canadian Kennel Club as thoroughbreds, Little River duck dogs like Dusty and Tootsie were a mongrel breed at the turn of the century. They were bred, so the story goes, to emulate the sly fox that hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along...
...viewings got rude refusals or no answer at all. Socialite neighbors who asked to come and bring their weekend guests got the blunt advice: "Take your guests to the movies." Some of Barnes's curter notes were signed with the name Fidéle de Port Manech, his mongrel bitch. The general public crusty old Connoisseur Barnes dismissed as untutored "diversion seekers," just as objectionable when they gushed approval as when they expressed stubborn distaste...
...Social Revolutionary Party--"morally one of the purest actions imaginable." It was an almost inevitable step for his peasant background combined with an extensive (if largely self-administered) education to give him an acute sense of the misery of the people. He was, in his own words, "a mongrel of mongrels," and often remonstrated to Lenin and Trosky, "It is I who am the village laborer...
From the Jails? No issue on the ballot had done more to arouse Baltimoreans. The campaign had boiled for months. At a public hearing, the anti-vivisectionists were challenged to choose between the healthy, happy child (once a blue baby) who was present and a mongrel stray...