Word: pug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wives went along, but most of them just left their husbands at Kansas City's Union Station in the care of Monsignor Curtis Tiernan. Some of the ladies felt a little trepidation. Pug-nosed, cheerful Monsignor Tiernan, the boys' old World War I chaplain, had never been a stern watchdog and he didn't look like one. His charges-staid-looking Midwest businessmen-were kicking up a mild and happy uproar when the train pulled out. They were the boys of Harry Truman's old Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F., on their way to Washington...
...Schmeling, onetime world heavyweight champ, onetime Nazi paratrooper, now admitted being an ex-pug. In Berlin, he plodded through ten dull rounds, lost the decision, and announced, for the second time this year, that he would retire...
While the big orchestras thundered at night in Usher Hall, hundreds were braving the morning chill in dingy Freemasons' Hall to hear, at 11 a.m. each day, music played by a natty, pug-nosed Englishman named Boyd Neel, 43. With his "little orchestra" of ten violins, four violas, four cellos and three double basses, Neel was producing delicate performances of 18th Century and contemporary music that bigger orchestras couldn't hope to match. He was clearly the hit of Edinburgh's first week...
...some of the princely states that pimple India. In little Nilgiri, near the east coast, Hindu Congress Party members who live in towns on the plains have been trying to get rid of their maharaja and join the Dominion. But most of his subjects are broad-faced, pug-nosed aborigines, who fled to the eastern hills nearly 40 centuries ago when Aryans invaded India. These near-naked tribesmen came down from the hills on the warpath (at the maharaja's prompting, said Congress supporters...
Died. Jim Tully, 56, onetime pug, hobo and successful writer (during the '20s) of high-flavored, aggressively crude novels (Shanty Irish, Jarnegan, Beggars of Life); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...