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Last week Mr. Churchill tried the trick of unleashing upon Leader Baldwin a cheeky and supercilious young man called "that pup!" in Mayfair where he used to work as a gossip-gatherer for William Randolph Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parasites, Mirth, Pup | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Died. Winks, Presidential setter pup: on the White House lawn, from concussion of the brain, after running into an iron fence while romping with a bull terrier belonging to a Secret Service man. Winks's most famed feat was the consumption of twelve plates of bacon and eggs, laid for breakfast in the servants' dining room of the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1934 | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...absconders are not to be found. News dispatches circulate the report that all Yale bewails the loss of her mascot, and that copious tears flow from the eyes of undergraduates as they reenter their Gothic cloisters empty of hand. No single student at Yale will rest peacefully until the pup is returned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE LIONS | 3/17/1934 | See Source »

...come to the notice of the CRIMSON that streets of Cambridge are almost impassible; better, indeed, if they were impassible. Mt. Auburn St. mucks aimlessly through snowbanks, littered with cars, crossed at rare intervals by Alpine footpaths. A Dunster student was observed setting up a pup-tent just north of the Lampoon building at dusk the other day; word had come north that the Plympton St. Pass was closed to traffic. Parking automobiles is no longer a science, but a gamble. The insouciant police swing their arms in Harvard Square, the Street Cleaners dig in here, dig in there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUCK-RAKING | 2/27/1934 | See Source »

Both Rao and Cleary, it soon developed, were animal lovers. Cleary had a police pup chained to his bed. The dog wore a harness on which was graven the name "Screw Hater" ("screw" = guard). The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory. Rao maintained a flock of 200 more on top of the prison storage house. Also his criminal lackeys had built him a little fenced garden, with flowers, benches and a milch goat. Both Cleary and Rao had passes permitting them to roam the island at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: World's Worst | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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