Word: mongrels
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...arousing 28 people to the danger of gas fumes in a Brooklyn apartment house, Sparky, a mongrel pup, and Mickey, a run-of-the-litter cat, received the John Haines "distinguished service" medals from the A.S.P.C.A...
Tito relaxed his talons, and the three American G.I.s and their mongrel mascot, which had shared their Yugoslav captivity with them, marched back to freedom. The Yugoslavs made the snatch last week while feeling out how far they could bluff the thin line of U.S. troops into bending back the new Yugoslav-Trieste frontier which they were guarding...
...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...