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...Philadelphia, a boy and a dog played together. The name of the one was Dick McDevitt (six years old)*; the name of the other was Ruff (an Airedale). While they did not actually talk to each other, they had found that by pats, grimaces and tender looks, they could communicate better than much older people. In the daytime the great crinkly dog padded by the side of the boy, whose head barely reached his shoulder; at night he curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Eighth | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...sought otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction." Elizabeth would only offer vague suggestions as to the English succession and renew her futile suggestion of Dudley, whom she had lovingly tickled under his ruff as he knelt before her to be made Baron Denbigh and Earl of Leicester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary Stuart | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Frans Hals is represented in this group by his Portrait of a Man-a Cavalier in a rakish hat, white ruff, glancing over his shoulder. Hals reproduced this gentleman's debonair carriage, reproduced also, in delicate red, the warts that marred his countenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bought | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD M. I. T. Smith, Merriam, r.f. r.g., Lankton Gordon, (Capt.), Stevens, l.f. r.g., Davidson, Johnson Combs, Rauh, c. c., Johnson, Bryant Samborski, Maher, r.g. l.f., Ruff, Forrester, Cook (Capt.) Rudofsky, l.g. r.f., Simonds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET PLAYS POORLY BUT DOWNS TECH 26-16 | 1/10/1924 | See Source »

Score, Harvard 26, M. I. T. 16. Goals from the floor, Smith 5, Gordon 4, Rudofsky 2, Davidson 3, Simonds, Ruff, Lankton. Goals from fouls, Combs 2, Gordon Samborski, Forrester 2, Ruff, Johnson Referee, W. F. Coady. Umpire, P. J. McLaughlin. Time, 20 minute halves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET PLAYS POORLY BUT DOWNS TECH 26-16 | 1/10/1924 | See Source »

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