Word: terrierism
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...Capitol Hill, two of the Hill's key prominences went to her. Backstage at the National Theater, after one of her romps through a week's run of the bawdy drawing-room comedy Dear Charles, Tallulah, drowning out the wee, piping yips of her Maltese terrier, thundered "Dahling!" to a couple of "divine people" who had paid her homage after a hellish day in the House (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Her admirers: Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican sometime Speaker Joe Martin, successors to the gavel of Tallulah's daddy, the late Democratic Speaker (1936-40) William...
...Terrier goalie Ralph Vito contributed several outstanding saves, while his teammates capitalized on infrequent Yardling defensive lapses to score their goals. The B.U. blueliners stopped a number of rushes before they could materialize and kept Crimson playmaking to a minimum...
Despite the two first period B.U. goals, the Yardlings dominated play and failed to score only because Terrier goalie Ralph Vito and his steady defense managed to control dangerous rebounds. Time after time, Copeland, McVey, Bob Cleary, and Bob Owen sent scorchers at the cage, but invariably failed to bat in the rebound...
With his fox terrier Sweikof, Grutzius camped out in a circus wagon, sleeping on the floor (for all the furniture had been sold), scrounging food from local citizens who themselves were too poor to spare much. In the winter, the dwarf kept warm by getting drunk on harsh red wine, some of which he shared with Sweikof, and by burning dried grapevines in his stove...
...perked up on grain and fruit. By week's end all the beasts were feeling better, and the Barcelona zoo promised them a home. The midget, weak and undernourished, was installed in a home in Ciudad Real. All that remained of the abandoned circus was Sweikof the fox terrier, who lay down before the wagon of his absent master, and mournfully refused...