Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live mutt...
Everywhere, dogs talked, at least in print. The Los Angeles Times went after mutt-in-the-street reaction, quoted one usually reliable hound: "We have plans for a satellite which will have an astrodome, lounge seats and dual headlights. Unfortunately it will not be ready before 1976." Humans also had some biting remarks. A Chicago Daily News paragrapher advised Under Secretary of State Christian Herter: "Maybe you should reserve a large share for the U.S. when you're dishing out the aid to backward countries...
...young ones are in bed. The hero of this waggish tale is a pit bull, called Wildfire in the film as in the life, who looks like a mournfully overgrown white mouse, and will certainly win all hearts with his chewed ears, string tail and general stigmata of mutt...
Died. Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, 69, creator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff; of cancer; in Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion...
...Gold! It's Gold!" Flaubert's simpletons are a Mutt & Jeff pair. François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard is fat and gay, Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet thin and dour. When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables." Pan and brush in hand, Pécuchet tramps the roads for fertilizer. When others contemptuously hold their noses, Bouvard cries, "But it's gold! It's gold!" Too much "gold" burns out the strawberry patch...