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...Doberman pinscher, Ch. Rancho Dobe's Storm (see cut opposite), defends the best-in-show title which he won last year in the annual Westminster Kennel Club competition at Madison Square Garden. The judge who last year picked Storm over the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest, called him "the greatest Doberman I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BEST OF BREED | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...Judge Joseph Sims paced to & fro, his eye kept turning to the Doberman, Champion Rancho Dobe's Storm. Earlier, in the tense semifinal of the group judging, Storm had beaten the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest. Standing still as a statue, the Doberman moved only his head. He was keeping an eye on the judge. After only 15 minutes, one of the shortest final deliberations in Westminster records, Judge Sims gave the Doberman the nod. Storm promptly jumped up & down and pawed and licked his handler-just as if he knew he had won. Owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Dog | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...smiling, freshly powdered, betokening a mild day. The other, an old discolored caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong entry into the schoolroom and with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, 'Od's my life, Sirrah, I have a great mind to whip you,'-then, with as sudden a retracting impulse, fling back into his lair, and after a cooling lapse of some minutes . . . drive headlong out again . . . with the expletory yell-'and I WILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tales out of School | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Exit Hamlet Harlow to sleep! Perchance to dream of an undefeated team--ay, there's the rub. But come the ides of November, and 'ere long even the Bulldog which barks at Yale, Sirrah, may be muzzled by the Crimson gale...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: Whirling Bill Shakespeare Chants Spectral High Praise Of Conant's Clan With Tourney at Hanover in Mind | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

...program, featuring Christmas music, follows: Christmas Music 1. Good News from Heaven Bach 2. Two Carols Warlock 3. A Carowle for Christmas Day Byrd Two Madrigals and Two Rounds 1. The Nightingale From Pamelia 1609 2. Oaken Leaves From Pamelia 1609 3. Weep oh mine eyes Weelkes 4. Come Sirrah Jack Ho Wilbye Hecula's Lament Bolst Three Choruses from Secular Cantatas Bach Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Sing | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

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