Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the ring were led four animals of splendid family, physique and decorum. To gain entrance into that final class, a dog must have been recognized as superior to all other dogs of his kind. The four were: Governor Moscow, pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney-a lean, piebald dog, massive-boned, with dark shelves under his eyes indicating his aristocratic birth. His tail stood out behind him like a dandy's cane, lacquered in black and white...
People's Progressives (formerly a pro-Ford group): Robert R. Pointer and Roy W. Harrop...
...Majesty then hied him to a penny-in -the -slot weighing machine. A crowd of bystanders peered curiously at the dial and duly noted that the pointer recorded the royal weight at "ten stone, thirteen" (153 Ibs.). His Majesty was, however, wearing a heavy overcoat, for the day was exceeding chilly...
Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
...nomination Mr. Pointer exclaimed: "It will be the proudest moment of my life if I am nominated by this convention. ... I received assurances only last Saturday that Lowden [ex-Governor of Illinois] will be square behind me if I am nominated...