Word: mongrelism
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...Skipper' is only a mongrel dog who loiters about the campus of Furnam University, Greenville, S. C., yet three students have been expelled from the school by vote of the student council because of him. The youths cut off his right ear with a razor, inclosed it in a envelope with a note and slipped it under the door of his master's room...
...whole truth. Now please let me apologize for "raking you over the coals." There are worse magazines than TIME - bunches of them! When I opened my "back mail" upon landing I found half a dozen magazines trying to boptlick up onto my doormat with "premium offers," like so many mongrel puppies...
Last week carpenters, bricklayers, waiters, plasterers, upholsterers, physicians, attorneys, undertakers, mail-carriers, professional singers, church soloists, all stood nattily attired in white trousers and blue coats, sang. The occasion was the Eisteddfod held last week at Swansea, Wales. The mongrel gathering of choristers was the Orpheus male chorus of Cleveland, Ohio, which won first prize from ten other competitors, was declared the greatest male chorus in the world...
...Abyssinians." While Prince Taffari protested 10,000,000 Abyssinians continued an indolent existence upon 350,000 square miles of territory, mostly fertile, very largely held in feudal tenure by innumerable rases (princes), subservant to the Empress. The term "Abyssinian," corrupted from the Arabic Habesh ("mixed," "mongrel") well describes this people who shade in different parts of the Empire from white through reddish-brown to ebony, and from Christianity to Mohammedanism. To the curious traveler's eye, Abyssinia presents a rural scene, picturesquely set off by civic stenches. Camels jog up to French Somaliland with gum and ostrich feathers which...
...famous Tattenham Corner a brown mongrel ran out on the track, tried to nip Colorado's heels. British newspapermen made much of this incident, but it is not likely that it had anything to do with the result of the race. Coronach's speed needed no mongrel help...