Word: pooches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having this job," McKay told the crowds on a trip home to Oregon last year. "I'm just a country boy, just a punk governor from a little state." His appointment as Secretary of the Interior, he said, reminded him of the small boy who entered his pet pooch in a pedigreed dog show; when told he was sure to lose, the boy replied, "That's all right-I didn't expect him to win. I just wanted to enter him so he could meet a lot of nice dogs...
Small wonder that McCarthy's pooch was on a cheese diet [TIME, March 22]. He has to stomach more in one day than Fala did in a year...
...owned by Mrs. Martha Hoar '52, refuses to remain home in the morning when his mistress leaves for classes. Mrs. Hoar was finally forced to seek permission from the professors to let the pooch attend classes on condition of his good behavior...
...ducked and danced and ran. He was caught and hit; he clinched and held; he ran again." After a visit to the Westminster Dog Show, Smith announced a discovery: "The ladies tethered to the tiny toys are invariably the most magnificent members of the species . . . The smallest pooch noted was towing the largest handler, a celestial creature measuring 17½ hands at the withers, deep of chest, with fine, sturdy pasterns...