Word: spitz
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...Venzke, 23-year-old graduate this spring from the Pottstown, Pa., High School. Last winter Venzke, who used to run to work in a Reading, Pa., steel mill, ran an indoor mile in 4:10, breaking Nurmi's record by 2 sec. Another world record breaker is George Spitz, Jr., 20-year-old sophomore at New York University. At a Boston meet last winter he jumped 6 ft. 8½ in. in the eccentric manner which he acquired practicing at home, in Flushing, L. I. Almost certain of a place on the U. S. team last week...
Fluffy disappeared. Jane Ruby tossed, her fever rose. Four spitz puppies whined with hunger. To the Jamaica police station went frantic Mrs. Ruby. There she found a kind-hearted detective named Horace Holden. Off went Horace Holden on a dog hunt. A day's sleuthing brought him to the room where Lawrence Smith lived. There was Fluffy. Horace Holden bundled Lawrence Smith and Fluffy in the back seat of his automobile, set out for the Ruby house...
Startled by a squeal, Horace Holden turned his head, saw a sight that throttled him. He stamped on his brakes and lunged toward the back seat. Old Laborer Smith was pressing a knife blade against the throat of Spitz Fluffy...
Ensued a terrific struggle. Finally Detective Holden wrested the knife from the old man's hand, threw him panting into the front seat. Tenderly he bound the spitz's neck with his own bandana. Then off he raced again...
...fever. Weaker grew the puppies' whines. Mrs. Ruby was desperate, the doctor at the end of his resources. Suddenly the door flew open. In walked Horace Holden with Fluffy. "Yelp!" yelped Fluffy, bounding to the bed. Jane Ruby stretched out her arms, her fever subsided, she slept. Four spitz puppies had a hearty meal. Embarrassed at the praise showered upon him, the golden-hearted detective backed out, took lonesome old Lawrence Smith to jail...