Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easter visitors watched Tommy Adair and 149 other less well-bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...only qualifications for entrance in the Mutt Show were four legs and a bark. Aristocratic lineage won purebreds no favors. The American Legion (sponsors) saw to that by choosing as judges three men utterly ignorant of dogs. No expert could have deciphered the scrambled strains in a waggling pup named Peanuts, and no expertness was needed to tell that he deserved a prize for being "cute...
Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and their Asahi (Morning Sun) rivals are smaller than Metropolitan U. S. dailies, contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions...
...disastrous because young John Warren has been so stupid as to lend the bank's best bonds to parties who do not wish to give them back. All this reduces Maggie Warren to noble penury. She sells her house and furnishings, goes with her dog, Mutt, to board at Mrs. Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes the gesture of committing suicide so that her life insurance will enable the bank to reopen. Wobbling her jaw, protruding her underlip and narrowing her eyes, Marie Dressier somehow makes the crude fable (written by Sylvia Thalberg, sister...
Awarded. Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, estranged wife of Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher ("Mutt & Jeff"); $5,000 in a damage suit (burned ear) against Charles Jundt ("of the Ritz"), coiffeur; in Manhattan...