Word: spitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...healthy growth, and even to life itself, is mother love. Psychiatrists who had recognized this for a generation or more sat alongside general physicians and social workers at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan last week to see one of the striking visual proofs: Psychoanalyst Rene A. Spitz' 20 minute film, Grief...
...that hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along the line an Irish setter got into the act, donating his bright ruddy color...
Mariano Rubino decided that Bellevue would be the safest place in town for his headquarters. Every morning at 10:30, he parked his sleek Cadillac in a nearby lot, walked briskly to the hospital with a little black spitz dog trotting beside him on a leash, and sat down in the waiting room. Nobody noticed him, or his customers. He left every evening...
...acts are as cheerfully muddled as the setting. The "spirit of Aladdin's lamp," a hefty chorine, turns Aladdin into a white spitz dog, which pops out of a passing boat. As the star attraction, four water maidens push a water-borne platform on which a trim, silver-skirted ballerina does a lotus dance. The whole thing ends with singers diving off the stage into the river, and with blubbery "eunuchs" being tossed out of boats. The Rhine takes it all with hardly a murmur...
...world were to be transformed into an animal kingdom, a dog fancier would have a wonderful time typecasting members of Congress. In both houses it would be easy to spot such specimens as the mournful mastiff, the excitable spitz, the busy dachshund with his close-set lawyer's eyes, the bloodhound with his air of sad preoccupation. Furthermore, there is an engaging and familiar quality about the aimless circling, the friendly tail-wagging, the snoozing and occasional fang-baring which take place on the floor...