Word: setters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
...outside the ballpark and fainted. In her diary she wrote: "Phils are losing. I bet it's none of Eddie's fault," and on the same page, "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you." Papa Steinhagen, a no-nonsense die-setter and father of another, less emotional daughter, got fed up with all the foolishness. Ruth's folks sent her to a psychiatrist but she went only once, and it didn't do any good. Indignant at Papa's ways, Ruth flounced out of the family flat in January...
Lady Mendl, 91, tireless international smart-setter, tried her own therapy when her doctor ordered her to bed for ten days. In a pink satin bed jacket and diamonds, she presided over several little dinner parties in her candlelit Hollywood bedroom. To small tables, her guests (Hedda Hopper, Clifton Webb, Fanny Brice, et al.) brought picnic baskets. Blooming under the treatment, Lady Mendl was ready this week to hop a boat for Europe...
...Square Garden for a go at 22 rivals for the best-in-group prize (boxers, Great Danes, collies, German shepherds, etc., classified as "working breeds"), and won again. It was easier than baiting boars. When the six group-finalists-a Welsh terrier, a Dalmatian, a miniature pinscher, an Irish setter, a greyhound and Zazarac Brandy-gathered for the showdown, it took tuxedoed Judge Tom Carruthers III just 15 minutes to single out Brandy as best-in-show-and dog-of-the-year...
...Woman's Secret (RKO Radio) might better have been kept under lock & key. Producer Herman J. Mankiewicz, a veteran scripter who should have known setter, scraped this one right off the bottom of Vicki Baum's rhinestone-studded jarrel of slick fiction...