Word: terriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk could proceed. The Prime Minister's seven-year-old Irish terrier, Pat II, padded in. The visitor asked if Pat II had by now replaced Pat I, an earlier Irish terrier, in the Prime Minister's affections. Gravely the Prime Minister replied that no dog could ever do that...
Blasted Event. In the Seattle Times appeared a candid ad: "Our pet terrier slipped her chain and so we're peddling pups again. Cockers? Bulldogs? German shepherds? For all we know they may be leopards...
...nearly two years the small (circ. 230,000) city -slicker New Yorker and the mighty, midget-sized Reader's Digest (circ. 11,000,000) have been on the outs. In a frigidly phrased communiqué to his contributors in February 1944, wire-haired Harold W. Ross, terrier-tempered editor of the New Yorker, served notice that his magazine was through being Digested...
...this, Boston University proved so incapable of punching its way out of a paper bag that it never got an offensive drive beyond its own 40; eight times the Terrier backs took to the air and Harvard intercepted three passes...
...rambling rooms (seven baths), she solved it: the Attlees will live only on the top floor (19 rooms). When the furniture has been reshuffled and the family knickknacks placed, the Attlees will move in with their second daughter Felicity, their kitten Whisky and their terrier Ting...