Word: terrierism
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Three years ago, while judging at a London dog show, Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the late U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, could hardly take her eyes off a nine-month-old Scottish terrier pup. Said Constance Winant, an old hand with blue-blooded dogs: "He filled my eye. I had never seen such an air of perfection, such perfect showmanship, such manners." She gave the pup a blue ribbon, then bought...
...Mechanics Building late last night after stashing away all the free chow and blue ribbons they could in two days. The occasion was the 37th annual show sponsored by the Eastern Dog Club, which attracted 80 different breeds of dogs ranging from Lhasa Apso (a Tibet terrier) to hot (peculiar American crossbreed first exhibited in 1896 by Harry M. Stevens...
Three Boston goals came on triple rebounds, times when the Terrier forwards had three straight shots from close range without much opposition from the defense. And there were a lot of other chances which were either muffed by the attacking BU linesmen or were squelched by Chase's brilliant saves...
...Conductor Munch says that his dog is an Irish Airedale, sometimes also known as a Welsh terrier (which is what TIME called him). Madame Munch says that Pompey is a pedigreed Airedale. TIME'S Boston correspondent says that the dog weighs a good 40 Ibs., is mostly grey, and is unlike the Airedales he grew up with...
...exasperated efforts to set her straight. In a typical gag, Ace says, wonderingly: "Imagine the Indians selling Manhattan for $24! And where are the Indians today!" Jane: "Playing baseball for Cleveland." Future shows will have only such subsidiary characters as an eight-year-old all-white West Highland terrier named Blackie and Ace's complaining, cliché-ridden mother-in-law (played by Betty Garde...