Word: pomeranian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dardanelles Campaign for attacking Germany from the rear. They were drafted by John Arbuthnot, Admiral Baron Fisher of Kilverstone who proposed a fleet of 612 shallow-draft boats, mostly transports, which would transit the Baltic approaches at whatever cost and land Russian troops picked up at Riga, on the Pomeranian Coast. The transports' passage around Denmark would be protected by the British Fleet's engaging the German Fleet...
...himself useful stealing clothes for Stowaway Crosby but rouses suspicion when he uses his machine gun to win a trapshooting contest. Since the passport Ruggles has loaned Crosby belonged to Public Enemy No. 1, wanted for electrocution, Crosby has to have a beard, which he obtains by clipping a Pomeranian. Something about him after that makes him of interest to all the dogs on board, including a huge hound which licks off the beard. Also aboard is Ethel Merman, who sings the same songs she sang in the stage show and denounces Crosby for leading her on: "You never even...
...believe her husband is a millionaire connected with S. W. Straus & Co. ("44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor"). W. Straus & Co. is in receivership. Claire Dodd's husband is actually Richard Straus, a Los Angeles realtor of moderate means. She likes large dogs and owns a Pomeranian. In her screen career, prior to The Case of the Curious Bride, she has always been cast as a siren. In private life, she teaches Sunday School once a week, dislikes siren roles. She is one of the best dressed, most personable actresses in Hollywood. She has no trouble dieting...
...yanking a rubber mouse attached to the cord attached to the curtain on the easel (TIME, Dec. 17)Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge's fine white-&-liver pointer Nancolleth Marquis to trot around the ring again. He had them pose once more and then gave first prize-a rosette and a silver bowl-to Duke's owner...
...Author, a rangy, 39-year-old Pomeranian farmer, may well be surprised at the fuss he has stirred up. So would his neighbors be if they knew that Farmer Dietzen (his real name) was "Hans Fallada." A lawyer's son, Author Dietzen spent an awkward and unhappy childhood in Berlin and Leipzig but has never felt easy in urban surroundings. Failure as a farm executive, clerk, bookkeeper, estate agent, provision-dealer, potato grower, he failed also with his first two books. Then he married, settled down in Holstein, then Berlin, with his wife and child, and made enough money...