Word: terrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Bonita, 21, mongrel fox terrier which sulked three days beneath the coffin of her owner, the late Horticulturist Luther Burbank while he lay in state after his death in 1926; of old age; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
...Awful Truth (Columbia). Resourceful, humorous Director Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap, The Milky Way, Make Way For Tomorrow) takes a couple of derby hats, an ingratiating wire-haired fox terrier and three players without any special reputations as comedians, and spins a brightly-written Vina Delmar script into the gayest screen comedy the season has seen. In the process he establishes Irene Dunne as one of the top comediennes of current cinema, keeps Columbia's reputation for mature comedy (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Theodora Goes Wild) at its brightest. He also...
...last week but His Majesty's Loyal Opposition harbored deep suspicions that His Majesty's Government intend to put one over on them by extending recognition to the Spanish Rightist regime of General Francisco Franco while the Lords and Commons stand adjourned. Laborite Clement Attlee, the tiny, terrier-like Opposition Leader barked demands for a specific promise that Parliament would be reconvened ''before the Government embark on any new policy which would render imminent the granting of belligerent rights to General Franco...
...Boston Post, Puck, Life. During the War he served as a captain in the Intelligence Section of the Siberian Expeditionary Force. For nine years after the Armistice he was roving correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, in which his stories are now usually serialized. With his wife and fox terrier, Roberts winters in a telephoneless Italian villa, works a heavy schedule the year round...
When his prize Manchester terrier, Mickey, was stricken by the heat and rolled into the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle plunged in fully clothed, dragged...