Word: strays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewidered and bedraggled stray dogs were picked up by the wheel of fortune Saturday morning, and raised to notoriety for an hour...
...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...
...brokers anticipated trouble fulfilling their contracts for September futures which come due on Sept. 30, before the new crop reaches market. There were only some 4,000,000 bu. of visible supply for September delivery. Prices soared as high as $1.16 a bushel, longs grinned, shorts hunted frenziedly for stray kernels...
...Helen Charlton announced today that she had canceled all vacation plans in order to continue her work of touring the West End district each night and feeding stray cats pâté de foie gras, minced salmon, minced beef and milk. "That is the only way to be sure the cats are fed," she explained. "I have given up donating money to charity...
...feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still-beauteous Elizabeth went too, but Langdon found his heart was now proof against her. Besides, he had a ward, Ann, a little-girl Galatea from the London slums, and was growing as fond of her as of a stray Puppy-Rogers' scheme was to get settled in Michilimackinac, then start west on a three-year expedition to the Pacific. The Northwest Passage he hoped to find was not the undiscovered outlet of Hudson Bay but an overland route. He needed money and no money was forthcoming from...