Word: pup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bull Pup. Racier than the Junior is the Bull Pup, a single-seat high-wing monoplane announced at $1,250 last fortnight by Buhl Aircraft Co. Features: Szekely 3-cylinder motor of 45 h. p. Top speed 92 m. p. h., landing speed 35. But a larger wing span is provided for buyers who want to fly and land more slowly...
Guelphs and Ghibellines are names familiar to historians, confusing to the laity. Guelph comes from hwelp or whelp, meaning a wolf's pup, and Ghibelline is an Italian attempt to pronounce the name of the counts of Waiblingen...
...Aiello left his West Side apartment-house hideout by the front door. Pup-Pup! stuttered a waiting machinegun. He, wild-eyed, slithered into an adjacent courtyard. Puppety-Up-Pup! another gun stammered. Blood oozed; Joe Aiello crumpled down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited...
Bugs Moran had been in gaol the day his partner was mowed down. Big, greying and hardboiled, he had suffered much from the puppuppetty-pup of the machineguns. His power really was broken when his seven chief followers were riddled in his garage, St. Valentine's Day of 1929 (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). He then seemed to have abandoned 'legging for an anti-Capone cleaning & laundry racket. Even so, one of his chief North Side henchmen, Jack Zuta, was spattered to death by slugs last summer in a Wisconsin dancehall (TIME, Aug. 11). Rumor said that Bugs last...
...Brownie, a nine-month-old pooch of indeterminate breed living in Pasadena, Calif, went the prize. His deed: dragging his mistress, a 13 month-old child, from before an onrushing motor car. Explained one of the judges: "He was only a pup and it was the first time an emergency had arisen, but instinctively he knew what...