Word: pug
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...seen in Manhattan, a sly dog that looked for all the world like a cross between a collie and a greyhound. There were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them only a few received the accolade of a brave azure ribbon which, fluttering...
...seemed a shame to hamper the abilities of Marie Prevost with a slap-stick story and a crazy continuity. In her own particular field, which is domestic farce, Miss Prevost is without a superior. But what price pug-nose and winsome and sophisticated smile in a steam launch beset by gangsters? Mr. Kenneth Harlan, her out-of-movie husband, saw her through most solicitously. Otherwise she was in very bad company...
...pug nose, pigeon toes, thick lips...
...Risen Christ. A well-known British cleric exclaimed: "I call it positively wicked and insulting to perpetrate such a travesty." Said Mr. Epstein: "The figure I have produced appeals to me as one of infinite pity, looking upon the world of sorrow with deep compassion." It had a pug nose, pigeon toes, thick lips...
...short, broad man with a pug-dog face...