Word: mongrelism
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...inevitable, Josef Nosko was soon bombarded with offers to pay for a dog license. His mongrel, Buster, was returned to him. Admirers sent him boxes of dog biscuits, a collar, a mouse...
...four room. What I would do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit and do for you what your parents should have done. . . . We spend billions in this country for schools and what have we educated here-a mongrel and a moron. . . . I have six kiddies myself and my oldest girl is ten. She knows who God is and the laws of the country. Down at my house we have a cat-o'-nine-tails. I show it, and that is all . . . that is needed. . . . I am not going to send...
...lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
Although every youth whose heels are tagged by the lowest mongrel probably will dispute the claim, Laund Loyalty of Bellhaven was adjudged "best dog." Laund Loyalty is a male collie puppy, nine months old, sable-and-white. He is owned by Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, of Red Bank, N. J., the proprietor of Bellhaven Collie Kennels, who shipped Bellhaven Behoover, scion of champion collie stock, to Mrs. Herbert Hoover the day before the election (TIME...
...appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece of the Orient written...