Word: mongrelized
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...Cambridge, Mass., a mongrel dog walked into the hallway of a lodging-house and gave a snarl. So ferocious was this snarl that Mrs. Dominic Spirito & two offspring, Mrs. Hugo Hoffman & two offspring, scurried quickly to their rooms, from the half opened doors of which they peeped down at the mongrel with frightened faces. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Guieto, observing the terrified women and children, jumped out the window and got a policeman. The policeman came up behind the prowling mongrel and shot him dead...
...strollers, screwing up their eyes, appraised again the astonishingly mongrel collection of Haitian types done by the expedition's third artist. He, Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfielieff, onetime captain of Cossacks, had a story to tell about painting Haitians...
...cutting the mystically hazy aura which has enshrouded the charm of Oxford's weathered stones and deeply rooted ivy, we are grateful. There has been too much affected anglomania in our seats of learning. Discontent with our mongrel methods has painted the British pastures a brighter hue of emerald green...
...another maxim: "The Irish Free State is not Irish, is not Free, and is not a State." Small ingenuity is needed to support this very logical thesis, and the Countess gave to it all her great energies, demanding that a true "Irish Republic" be established, "instead of our present mongrel specimen of a 'Dominion...
Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...