Word: terrier
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...pairs of identical twins who had been separated since infancy. In some cases they had not even met since childhood. Many had lived strikingly similar lives. "Edwin" and "Fred," for example, both became electricity repair men, married the same year; each had a baby son and a fox terrier named Trixie...
...Elizabeth is said to be the only heir to the British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect tinfoil, roll bandages, knit socks for Tommy Atkins. Elizabeth contributes from her savings to the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Air Ambulance Fund, buys National War Savings Bonds which are beyond the penny means of her little sister...
...were unable to render the baying of a beagle, De Mille dispatched six of them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted to imitate Mr. Smith, the wire-haired terrier of The Awful Truth. Another imitator discovered by Lux was George Arliss, who supplemented his performance on one show with several fine peacock screeches...
...quarter of an hour had ticked away .when out from a nearby office exploded Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater, jumpy as a terrier. He hollered: "We've got it!" American Export had got CAA per mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly of vast, pioneering Pan American Airways. For more than a year the upstart air line (TIME, April 29) had lazed along, thinking up tasks for its skeleton staff: daily weather maps for its meteorologists to chart, constant checking and rechecking of its only plane - a Consolidated 28, which had already...
...Irene Bordoni can still wink, but next to Victor Moore, the most ingratiating performer is dark, magnetic Newcomer Carol Bruce, who knows how to put a song and herself over at the same time. Victor Moore, of course, is one of those things like Strauss waltzes and wire-haired terrier puppies that only a confirmed sourpuss could dislike. His Senator Loganberry takes rank with his Ambassador Goodhue and his Vice President Throttlebottom. A dazed, roly-poly babe-in-the-wood, he is probably surprised that he casts a reflection in a mirror. He has never been better than when, dressed...