Word: terrier
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...Keats's Irish terrier, Byrne, failed to come home one night. Chapman found the poet playing the violin, and remarked on his composure. "Keats smiled . . . 'And why should I not fiddle,' he asked, 'while Byrne roams...
...Bits, Two-Time. In Medford, Ore., Two-Bits, a terrier who survived a dive down an 800-foot cliff into a snow bank, did it all over again on a snowless day, recovered, got sent to a farm to have a little sense trained into...
...relieve DFD's volunteers of their financial burden, a unique fund-raising campaign was launched last week. Brain child of Patent Broker James M. Austin, who has donated some $10,000 to war charities in the name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals...
...little dog (a wire-haired fox terrier) named Delia. She was brown and pawed the air. I poured all my love and affection into her training, working night and day so she would pass the tests. Her size was against her to begin with. She weighed 28 pounds and the minimum is 50. She obeyed me like a machine. She'd sit on a "stay" command while I marched out of sight and no one could budge her. I'd reappear from over a rise perhaps 200 yards away and signal "down" and she would drop like...
...away their positions. They dig deep, stand-up foxholes, which are safe except under direct artillery fire (and which are better than U.S. slit trenches). On the defensive, they dig themselves dugouts protected by palm trunks, and then they crawl in and resist until some explosive or a human terrier kills them. Parachutist Major Harry Torgeson, who had the job of blasting Japs out of the caves on Gavutu (TIME, Sept. 7), reported finding Japs firing machine guns over the horribly stinking corpses of comrades dead three days...