Word: dachshunds
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...master neglect his corporeal self. Wearing a peaked hat on his head and carrying a walking stick, he took his daily constitutional along the roadways of Sussex, often shadowed like a caricature by his dachshund Maximilian. Or else he donned his knickerbockers and a striped jacket and, with Jamesian dignity, hopped onto his bicycle to go for a spin...
...Million, Charley's Aunt). He appeared so often as the husband of fluttery Mary Boland that fans thought that they were actually married. He returned to Broadway in 1958 (The Pleasure of His Company), then more recently took on warm, grandfatherly roles in Walt Disney features (The Ugly Dachshund, Follow Me, Boys...
...After climbing the ruins of Palenque, Uxmal and Chichen Itza, snorkeling at Cozumel, flying to Chicago, then driving a nine-year-old Thunderbird, our 15-year-old grandson and Willy, our dachshund, home to Wellsburg, W. Va., in eleven hours (legally, too), f grab my beloved TIME and find I "passed the arbitrary milestone of 65 into the limbo of old age" five years ago. I didn't know...
...dogs as substitute friends, spouses and children. Many a furnished room contains a small human and a huge Great Dane or similar beast. Some homosexuals use exotic breeds as props for pickups. In Manhattan's Riverside Park, one eccentric spinster used to talk incessantly to her aged dachshund while wheeling it about in a baby carriage. An indignant father once tried to embarrass her by having his toddler wear a dog muzzle, to no avail...
...Grass has reached into the pressing present. The book's setting is Germany today. Its grim narrative device, characteristic of Grass's grotesque humor, offers society as a patient in a dentist's chair. The plot, if it can be called that, involves the threatened sacrificial burning of a dachshund. But Grass's real concern, which currently throbs like a sick tooth through the mind and conscience of the Western world, is the Generation Gap, the morality of revolutionary protest, the apparently helpless and surely tragic bankruptcy of liberalism...