Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, greyhound raising is fashionable. In the U. S. it is practiced principally by Midwestern Indians, who have time and space to train their dogs. More interesting to breeders than last week's races is the National Coursing meet run semiannually at Abilene, Kans. for the purpose of testing speed and stamina. Short-lived, delicate, savage as wolves, greyhounds wear muzzles when they run to prevent them from biting each other to death. Extracting the live hare, traditional coursing quarry, does not decrease the cruelty of the sport. Greyhounds are taught to pursue mechanical rabbits by developing a thirst...
...Reese Hoyt of Katonah, N. Y., which has won the championships of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. His owner is fond of telling the story of how Nunsoe Due de la Terrace last year dragged her on snowshoes to the Katonah railroad station in time to catch a train for Boston where he took Best of Breed in spite of frost-bitten feet. The last time she told the story was at a gathering in the Manhattan studio of an etcher where Nunsoe Due de la Terrace had not only had his portrait etched but where he himself unveiled...
Last time Rabbi Vallach saw his brother was when Maxim-Moses' train passed through Bialystok, their birthplace, once part of Russia, now in Poland. Related the rabbi: "I shouted 'Meyer, Meyer.' He looked out of his carriage. At first he did not know me. . . . Then he stepped on the platform and we walked up and down. . . . We talked of our other brothers. He gave me a cigar. And all the time his guards were following. . . ." Last year Rabbi Vallach; ill, wrote to Maxim-Moses for money. Back came a reply from Litvinoffs secretary: "According to ... the Soviet...
...Lord Edward Montagu. I want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train with soap and toothbrush. In barracks at Toul, between a pair of Saar refugees he fell downstairs, dislocated...
United Air Lines could also point to the fact that a round-trip between New York and Detroit on one of its planes costs $62.46, meals free; that a round-trip by train with lower berth costs $62.40, meals extra. (American Airlines fare is the same as United, with a $2 additional charge each way for berth...