Word: terrierism
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Tire Trouble. John Henry Mears, theatrical producer; racing globetrotter, took off from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., in a Lockheed monoplane to beat the Graf Zeppelin's round-the-world time of 21 days. With pilot Henry J. Brown and a terrier mascot he reached Harbor Grace, N. F., tried to take off before dawn on a bumpy field, cracked up when a tire blew...
...Winnie" is only No. 2 man in the Conservative Party? Or that No. i Man Stanley Baldwin had decided not to oppose passage of the Act by acclaim? Mr. Churchill is the grandson of a duke (Marlborough) with the fighting instincts of a Grand Mogul or a rat-hunting terrier. Singlehanded, while Conservative whips treated him to blackest looks, Well-dined "Winnie" flayed the Treaty, repeated thunderously his now famed anti-Treaty slogan...
...years ago they were cannibals, was curiosity. For she was Dr. Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist. Soon she made herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into the tribe. She stayed ten months. Her only traveling companion was a fox terrier, her only equipment a revolver, a first-aid kit, 25 Ibs. of staple groceries, gifts of tobacco, tinsel, toy balloons, with which she had small difficulty in winning her way among New Irelanders...
Anybody's War (Paramount). This rambling comedy involving two colored men ("Moran & Mack") and a Sealyham terrier in the U. S. Army is quietly and deftly directed by Richard Wallace. Other pictures like this have often degenerated into a series of disconnected gags, but Wallace keeps the action moving along, and when nothing else is happening entertains the spectator simply by his manipulation of photography. The activities of the dog-catcher of Buford, Tenn., his dog Deep Stuff and his best friend, persuaded to join by a recruiting sergeant who mentions easy eating, sleeping and band music, seem...
Mickey, a Florida terrier, who jumped in front of his small master and took a diamond-back rattler's bite. Mickey died...