Word: terrier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good. His tankmen were rampaging around, deep in Germany, on the loose and on the prowl, raiding and rolling on. Patton could turn off the radio and turn on one of his favorite topics of conversation: the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Willie, the General's white bull terrier, snuffed sleepily...
...again as heavy as the Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships in the U.S., if not in the world...
...Powell, an old and expert hand at this sort of thing, has done it four times before. This time he once more has the able help of his original partner, lynx-eyed Myrna Loy, back in films after four years' absence. There is also, of course, the bottlebrushy terrier Asta, who must, unless like Hitler he is two other dogs, richly qualify by now for M.G.M.'s munificent old-age benefits. The fifth time around, the three of them still guarantee a pleasant excuse for putting off household repairs and serious reading...
...home, Laurier House in Ottawa. This is the real center of Canada's Government. He is at work there at 9 (and except for the daily Cabinet meeting and Parliament) he is still there at 11 o'clock at night. His most constant companion is an Irish terrier, Pat. The only man who calls him by a given name is Franklin Roosevelt (he calls him "Mackenzie...
...hero is always played by a girl, the ugly old dame by a man; and there is usually a stuffed cat or dog. Biggest pantomime hit is Humpty Dumpty, breaking all records at the Coliseum to the tune of ?9,000 a week. Its animal is a stuffed terrier, that, like the rubber plant in Hellzapoppin, grows bigger each time it puts in an appearance. Its topical song-which the audience joins in on-runs: "When shall I see a banana again, tell me, mother...