Word: setters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capers called them her "girls." At Christmas, she sent out pictures of her dogs, as proud parents send photos of children. Often, the only jewelry she wore was a pin shaped like an Irish setter. Her dogs were her life, but Miss Capers fretted constantly about what might happen when Brickland and Sunny Burch no longer had her to care for them. Who could possibly love them as she had? Determined that her dogs should not suffer, Miss Capers wrote a will-leaving the bulk of her modest estate to the Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania and stipulating that Brickland...
...Philadelphia Inquirer editorialized that maybe Pennsylvania should make the Irish setter its "state dog" to go along with a state flower, state tree and state game bird. The United Irish Societies of Pittsburgh found a lawyer willing to defend the dogs-for free. A dog from the Pittsburgh police K-9 corps found his paw dipped in ink and splayed in signature across a petition for clemency. A New York striptease dancer, who claims to own 50 dogs, offered to undress in front of the courthouse if it would help save the setters...
...fact, the dedicated International Setter develops a sixth sense about places to be and when to be there. Old-line internationals like the Guests stay at the Ritz in Paris, but according to one observer, too many of the wrong people began to follow the right people there, so the right people had to start going to the Plaza-Athenee, the Lancaster and the Meurice. According to the same kind of Gresham's law, resorts, and even countries, suddenly...
...fashion writer is more alert or more knowledgeable than the New York Herald Tribune's petite, saucy Eugenia Sheppard. Herself a taste setter by virtue of that which she chooses to ignore, Fashion Editor Sheppard delights in telling her readers as much about the people who wear good clothes as about those who design them. Last week she told of her attempts to scout out the details of the wardrobe that Jacqueline Kennedy had assembled for her trip to Asia...
...Taste Setter. To bolster his store's carriage-trade appeal, outspoken Dick Gump long ago set out to establish himself as an arbiter of good taste. On lecture tours and in a widely sold book (Good Taste Costs No More), he has waged incessant war against what he considers bad design. One of his targets was none other than New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; he was distressed by the museum's pride in a gold cup made by Benvenuto Cellini in the shape of an ornate shell resting on a dragon riding on a turtle...