Word: setter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back several birds. The President, in starched collar, yellow necktie, leather waistcoat, green mackinaw coat, riding trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
...good to eat on toast, their little paws pointing like small handles over their plump stomachs. They should be hunted in the south and will be this year by Gen. John J. Pershing, Vice President Dawes, and perhaps Irvin S. Cobb. President Coolidge at this moment has a special setter in training, for what purpose no one knows, but possibly for quail hunting...
...President Coolidge received a five-months-old thoroughbred setter puppy, by name "Palo Alto," as a gift from Claire Wildner, Superior realtor. He was told that that the flecks of color on the dog's coat were called "ticks...
...Tweedmouth, England, a thoroughbred Irish setter bitch belonging to R. Drummond produced, last week, 18 puppies...
With her black setter Lord for company & guard, a Swedish camera man and two chauffeurs to drive her baggage truck, she had already last week driven her car 7,300 miles in 42 traveling days-from Constantinople, through Syria, Armenia and Persia, to Moscow. Europeans were amazed; Germans were proud besides...