Word: wolfhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere in France, the talk was about a British bulldog and a French poodle who were joined by a lanky wolfhound as they strolled along the Rue de la Paix. "Well," said the latter in a strong Russian accent, "how are things with you? Have you been getting enough to eat?" "Oh, things are picking up a bit in England," said the bulldog, "but we've had rather a bad time of it, y'know. Rations and so forth." "Oh, yes," said the poodle, "and here we're not much better off. Why, during the occupation...
According to Leningrad's Pravda, Khapuga, acting on rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove...
...Women. The defendants sat in their long dock, three rows deep, large identification numbers on their chests, listening impassively. The 26 men were grave and sodden. The 19 women kept an insolent composure. There was prune-faced Juana Borman (whose wolfhound liked to tear prisoners to pieces). There was wispy-haired Anna Hampel (who, according to one witness, had a crush on a French internee. "She tried to flirt with him, but he was reluctant, so she beat him all the time...
Conrad Veidt, looking more & more like a scarred wolfhound, has a few moments as a Nazi captain. Peter Lorre, as a petty passport racketeer, is knocked out of the show after 20 minutes. Sydney Greenstreet briefly represents the emigre black bourse. Oldtimer S. Z. Sakall (who should consider wearing his face in a brassiere) steals scene after scene as usual, merely by wobbling his jowls. Claude Rains is a bush-league Laval...
...Irish, who had gone to the finals last year. Thus, when the six group winners padded into the ring for final judging, two favorites were missing. The group finalists included an English sheepdog, an English springer spaniel, an English-bred West Highland white terrier, a silver-grey borzoi (Russian wolfhound), a black poodle, a brown Pomeranian. The two dogs that commanded the fanciers' attention were the Old English sheepdog, Ch. Merriedip Master Pantaloons, the gallery favorite, and the West Highland white terrier, Ch. Wolvey Pattern of Edgerstoune...