Word: hounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avid check-snatcher and tipper, its most unflagging patron of flower shops and buyer of sparkling burgundy (which he called "bubble ink"). His pinkish-blond hair was as much a trademark as his open-throat shirt, his fetish against wearing hats, ties or overcoats. "I'm a publicity hound," he told Cleveland sportwriters when he took over the Indians. And ex-Marine Bill Veeck, who had lost a leg as a result of combat injuries on Bougainville, always made good copy...
...enough money to buy 200 run-down acres of what had once been the fine land of his ancestors. But before he could begin building the place up, he felt bound to scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise them from pups with no purpose in life except...
Just last week a lion hunter in the Verde Valley told about a young coyote that joined up with his pack of hounds in a lion hunt. When one old hound got a bellyful of such impudence, he turned on the interloper and chased him into the bottom of the canyon. Shortly after the old hound had rejoined the hunt, the young coyote was on his tail again, thus proving that he was set on learning the trade, and he knew that he could learn more from an old experienced dog than from a young...
...Book-of-the-Month Club set Cheaper off by picking it as a dual selection (with Fred Gipson's Hound-Dog Man) and distributing 250,000 copies. In five months Publisher Crowell has sold an additional 150,000 copies and reports that customers are still carrying it out of bookstores at the rate of 5,000 copies a week. Twentieth Century-Fox paid out $100,000 for the screen rights...
...sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except for special occasions, the attendance followed the pattern of the pre-World War I days, which a mournful St. Louis sportwriter once characterized by saying solemnly that "the fans were staying away in large numbers...