Word: bulldogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forsyte Saga into following cheerfully at Author Galsworthy's heels wishes now that his leader would sit down and take a well-earned rest. Having finally, after several backward glances, parted from the Forsytes, Galsworthy has now taken up with the Cherrells. has fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind...
...Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog at the feet of Jesus Christ, barkin' and bitin' at what He don't like," carried on, founded a home for widows and orphans of drunkards at Kansas City, became president of the W. C. T. U., stumped the country for "that divine law," national Prohibition...
...traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when, all in one day, his pet French bulldog Bouboule (last of a series) died and a maid was killed falling downstairs...
Stubborn as King Canute, defiant as Joshua, brave as Horatius he stood there a true son of the-British bulldog. The Brighton Express roared down at him 50 m.p.h., came to a halt with great screaming of brakes. Out tumbled the engineer, pale beneath the grease on his face...
...Walker tumbled like a nine pin, then bounced to his feet, straining every nerve to cut his big opponent down. In the second round hulking Max Schmeling, to his pained surprise, received a thunderstorm in the stomach. His eye was cut. It was a clean round for the little bulldog...