Word: terrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best toy, Tang Hao of Cavershawm Catawba, was, as usual, a Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound. Other finalists were Torohill Smoky and the best terrier, a pert little wire-haired bitch named Flornell Spicypiece of Halleston...
...Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids the pitfall of most sequels, that of seeming a weak copy of the original, by being so much like its original that only experts in Dashiell Hammett plots will be able to tell the difference. In this picture, Asta. Detective Nick Charles's wire-haired terrier, has a mate, and the scene of operations is San Francisco instead of New York. In other respects, Mr. & Mrs. Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) maintain unchanged the amiably frantic domesticity which, in The Thin Man, set the style for detective cinema...
...vivid colorist, specializing in dashing, brilliant-hued landscapes, flower pieces and nudes. His brother Henry is a well-known music critic. Hard working, and after four years in the War almost pathologically shy, Artist Malherbe has just one interest out side his painting: Nornie, his black-saddled wirehaired fox terrier, which he likes to put in figure compositions. Represented in a dozen good collections, Artist Malherbe has a technical peculiarity. He paints everything on panels of soft wood, to ab sorb the excess oil in his pigments, and refuses to varnish any picture until ten years after he has painted...
...headline "King's abdication seems certain!", stops and telephones to Edward VIII. Says the sympathetic French innkeeper's wife as Mrs. Simpson disappears down the road, "She seemed, oh, so much more composed, after she had telephoned the Palace." French reporters discover that Mrs. Simpson's terrier is named "Folly." They get Mrs. Simpson's chauffeur to say that she has framed on her mantel in London the Chicago Tribune's famed Cinderella Simpson cartoon: in a shoe store Empire Salesman Edward VIII with the Imperial State Crown on his head kneels and offers...
...then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes six years ago removed a kidney. Last week Miss Medes was vacationing from a November spree, will go on another after New Year...