Word: terrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travels. At Pilsen he inspected the brewery, emptied a row of steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with a wire-haired fox terrier. When he reached Budapest he complained of writer's cramp from prodigal autographing. There he was given a bottle of 1827 tokay. The official reception at Vienna was delayed three hours by his tardiness. He danced at Baroncrest, was given a statue of Minerva, complained: "I seem to live in hotel lobbies...
...Reported the Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten: "A gray mist surrounds the 'beloved hill in Bayreuth' as the orchestral instrumentalists make their pilgrimage to this season's rehearsals . . . [Toscanini's] green auto is already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises his stick . . . sings with the music . . . 'Molto, molto, piu molto sforzato.' He wishes a strong, dramatic accent . . . a little cantilena [singing]. . . . Then, a small error in the oboes. . . . 'Ah, no no no, no no no, no no no no.' He goes back disconcerted...
...Back home! Back home!" shouted Laborites loudly in the House of Com mons last week. They were jeering terrier-like Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, who rose from their ranks and strode defiantly across to the Opposition benches. Close behind him was the whip of his New Party, Dr. Robert Forgan...
...died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million into 67, and in her last days was a strange old body in odd cloaks and shawls who lived in cheap flats with a Skye terrier named Dewey. To her son, Ned, she once gave a package of cancelled insurance policies, told him they were bonds and had him carry them to San Francisco to make sure he was efficient and trustworthy. Assured, she later gave him a railroad in Texas where, more neighborly but no less idiosyncratic...
...really are. Nonetheless, he often contrives to take a banal situation-in this case that of an opera singer who loses his voice-and make apparent the underlying values which have caused it to become banal. The great tenor is a debauched and frivolous celebrity who calls his fox-terrier Lohengrin, enjoys entertaining ladies in his dressing room, and goes to South America without his wife. There he discovers, in a moment which might have been one of beery pathos, that he can no longer sing. When he gets back to Germany, fresh air and exercise help restore his voice...