Word: sleighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of Canada, has been smart enough to see that fun can also be big business. So this winter, the first big postwar season, Canada's hundreds of winter resorts are spending thousands of dollars to promote winter sports. For those who wanted them, there is still snowshoeing, sleigh and dog-team rides and tobogganing. But the real frost king is the ski business...
Young Willie White was highly conscious of belonging to Emporia's "ruling class." So it is not surprising that about a quarter of his 669-page autobiography is a nostalgic recall of the golden goodness of 19th-Century, mid-American boyhood-the swimming hole, sleigh rides, girls, Indian scares, boy fights, boy jobs...
...Currently rumored to be taking a sentimental sleigh ride with sox-appealing Van Johnson...
...dogs in service, the Army took 19,000. More than half saw active service-140 as mine-detecting dogs, 151 as messengers, 268 as sleigh dogs, 541 as scouts, and more than 9,000 as sentries. Of the 15 breeds originally enlisted, German shepherds, Belgian sheep dogs, farm collies, Doberman pinschers and schnauzers turned out to be most satisfactory. Best all-around breed was the German shepherd...
...come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse pulling his sleigh and a fresh animal trotting behind. On his lonely rides Doc had worn out the sleigh, a buggy, a snowmobile, a Chewy, a Star and 15 Fords...