Word: terrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sandburg, to Frost, but cooler heads will wait for more achievement before upping him above MacLeish or Jeffers. A note of challenge to defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works its ancient way out, knowing No fulness but to live, strongly to live. . . . Cry, sons of earth, blaspheming your parentage...
Witnesses for the bride were the French Army's taut, terrier-like Chief of Staff General Max Weygand and equally intense onetime Premier and present Minister Without Portfolio André Tardieu. About all that gallant Paris correspondents permitted themselves to say of the bridegroom, M. Antoine Rieder, was that he had as his witness the Military Governor of Paris, grim-browed General Henri Gouraud...
Died. Winks, Presidential setter pup: on the White House lawn, from concussion of the brain, after running into an iron fence while romping with a bull terrier belonging to a Secret Service man. Winks's most famed feat was the consumption of twelve plates of bacon and eggs, laid for breakfast in the servants' dining room of the White House...
London played lavish host to the brisk, bandy-legged engineer of the French war machine, terse, terrier-like General Maxime Weygand...
...Dutra. He and Lawson Little were the last pair in the field. Playing with almost no gallery, taking a pill which his caddy offered him every hour, Dutra, 15 Ib. lighter than when the tournament began, was on the 15th tee, waiting for officials to silence a yapping fox terrier so that he could drive. He had had a 71 on his morning round. Now, to win the tournament, all he needed was to play the last four holes in not more than one stroke over...