Word: bloodhounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloodhound...
...Crouch, Idaho, State Prison guards lost a bloodhound, used another one to find...
Robert Odell has the stature of a Wotan, the jowl of a bloodhound and a temper to match. An Iowa farmboy, he went to San Francisco in 1923, later set up as a mortgage broker in Santa Barbara. In 1927 he and some friends decided to acquire small, little-known Pacific States...
...College's student publications thereupon published belated reviews of this book. Chapter titles: "A Platonic Kiss," "A Siren's Boudoir," "A Mistress Dissatisfied." Its big scene: a nude woman, lying on a couch of black velvet, seducing the hero: " 'You hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...
...essential," he snarled, "that no element of the casino be allowed. . . ." To President Gay these words carried conviction. That harried broker, whose worries and heavy dewlap had combined to give him the mournful mien of a bloodhound, by this time had alienated almost everybody. Douglas linked him with the Old Guard. Shields, Hanes and Pierce, his original backers, were fed up with...