Word: wolfhound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sydney, Australia, where hospital inmates were kept awake at night by barking dogs, the dogs were silenced by severing their vocal chords. One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo...
...Brockport, N. Y., Maxwell Breeze, 14, was drowned July 4 as he swam in the Erie Canal. Friends insisted that a cur (Airedale+wolfhound) named Idaho had climbed Breeze's back, forced him under. Ten days later Daniel Houghton, 21, said Idaho had nearly drowned him in the same manner. Straightway he took the case to court, demanded Idaho's death. A storm of controversy blew up & down the land. Dimes and quarters were sent for Idaho's defense. Hired with the money, Harry Sessions, Rochester attorney, pleaded the dog's youthful playfulness. As crowds cheered...
...breed at Westminster from 1930 to 1934. But many a layman, remembering the smart, friendly Scotch collies of his youth, has deplored the breeding trend which gave Lucason his looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled muzzle and skull collie fanciers have crossed their dog with the Russian wolfhound. According to oldtime collie-lovers, they have bred out the dog's brains, made it a snappish, treacherous fashion-plate fit for nothing but mincing around a show ring. One morning last week Trainer Michael Kennedy took Champion Lucason out to groom him for a show at Englewood next...
George West's brindle and white greyhound, Gamecock Duke of Wales, who beat a beagle, a Russian wolfhound and a whippet in the final judging of his group...
...hideout had been constructed near the White House laundries where Secretary Walter Newton could hold secret political interviews; 4) Mrs. Newton had fallen from her horse into the Rapidan. The only story that Secretary Joslin branded as untrue was one to the effect that a Hoover wolfhound bit a Marine guard and the President, patting the animal's head, remarked: "Nice doggie! Now go bite General [Smedley Darlington] Butler...