Word: terrier
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Admiral Byrd last week ordered an epitaph for his terrier Igloo, with whom he flew over both poles and who is now buried at Dedham, Mass.: "Igloo?He Was More Than A Friend...
...died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million into 67, and in her last days was a strange old body in odd cloaks and shawls who lived in cheap flats with a Skye terrier named Dewey. To her son, Ned, she once gave a package of cancelled insurance policies, told him they were bonds and had him carry them to San Francisco to make sure he was efficient and trustworthy. Assured, she later gave him a railroad in Texas where, more neighborly but no less idiosyncratic...
Died. Igloo, 6, fox terrier, pet and mascot of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on polar expeditions; of indigestion; in Boston, Mass., after three veterinaries had sought to save his life. Admiral Byrd, lecturing in Springfield, Ill., canceled an engagement, rushed to Chicago to charter an airplane. But Death had come to Igloo. In Memphis, Tenn., continuing his tour, Admiral Byrd declined the offer of another dog. Said he: "Igloo cannot be replaced...
Died. Snip, cream cairn terrier, favorite pet of King George V; after choking on a feather while stalking the Royal pigeons at Windsor Castle...
...Hartford City. Ind.. a constable found a fox terrier reeling and lurching along the street. He followed it to the home of one Paul Garwood. whom he arrested for liquor law violation. Paul Garwood's fox terrier ate mash, was an habitual toper...