Word: terrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wire-haired terrier named Asta (formerly Skippy) was the best canine actor since...
Twice in the initial quarter, Crimson marches were halted on the one-yard line by stubborn Terrier goal line stands. Still tenacious they stopped the Jayvee attack again in the following period on the twenty-yard marker...
...Terriers faded badly in the last stanza, allowing the Jayvees to push over two touchdowns, one on a pass from "Squibby" Squibb to Gordon and the other on a short pass, Bigwood to Kayser. Fumbling the pass from center in an attempted kick for the extra point, Feary plunged over through a maze of Terrier tacklers to make the score...
Died. Paddy Reilly, 12, oft-decorated, Scotch-Welsh border terrier, mascot for the Humane Society of New York; of toxic poisoning of the kidneys; in Manhattan. He had saved from drowning, fire and asphyxiation some 40 lives, mostly human, but including canine, feline, and one canary. Sometimes garbed in a straw hat with pipe in mouth, occasionally wearing a brown derby presented to him by Al Smith, Paddy Reilly would appear in front of the New York Public Library to raise funds for the Humane Society...
Remember the Cardiff? Nearly 21 years ago she steamed proudly (her nose was wet; she never learned how to take a header) up the broad Firth of Forth, with the Friedrich der Grosse and the other beaten Germans in her wake-a wagging Welsh terrier leading a pack of drooping greyhounds...