Word: mastiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: By applying such a word as "cowardly" to the expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...
...Summerville, suburb of Rochester, N. Y., David G. Wilson, no dog owner, no dog lover, returned home late one night. As he entered his living room 13 dogs including a great mastiff rose from his chairs and wagged their tails in greeting. His wife upstairs knew nothing of them. They had entered by an open cellar window to escape the cold...
...looked exactly like that preposterous old South African, whose picture, displayed in advertisements or in his book, is now in so many homes-Trader Horn. He had the same shiny bald head, the beard that looks as if it had been doused in foamy soapsuds, the same sad mastiff eyes. His nose was shiny and a little bulbous. His speech had a genial and sarcastic tang for the silly staring people who came to see him, his mind retained a vast curiosity and with it inevitably, a courteous and inclusive scepticism, an uncertainty, an almost universal doubt. "He habitually formed...
...Guido quarrel in the garden; a dream reconciles them. They argue of a prehistoric monster; the Father Superior sends them to the circus, which they miss through absentmindedness, forgetting their monster with their destination. Not by grace but by slices of red beef does Brother Exuper tame the fearsome mastiff. The monument achieved by Brother Giles, after unseemly longing, is his huge foot print in a new cellar floor. By such simple means is the essence of a faith distilled, not for the saints but for the love...
First Game. Mastiff-faced Joe Harris (Washington), no blood relative of Manager Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, but sharing his ideas, caused the first outbreak of hysteria by slamming a home run into the arms of the band behind a temporary fence in right field. Aged Roger Peckinpaugh (discarded by the Yankees as too gouty) came up to bat in the fifth inning, hit one of Pitcher Meadows' (Pittsburgh) offerings, filled bases which already contained Harris and Bluege. Up came Rice. Oof! Strike one. . . . Sugg! Strike two. . . .Pitcher Meadows smiled, wound up to pitch strike three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing...