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...Obamapup. Surely a postpartisan, bridge-building reformer would lean toward some spectacularly unidentifiable mutt, a shelter dog or at least one of the American Canine Hybrid Club's more than 500 registered hybrids, the designer dogs meant to give you the best of both breeds: a Labradoodle, a Peke-a-Poo, a Bagle (half basset, half beagle). A candidate seeking a bully pulpit might like the Bullypit (a bulldog-pit-bull mix). Or he could go for a Sharmatian--part Chinese Shar-Pei, part Dalmatian--and get the whole East-and-West, black-and-white thing in a single pooch...
Luckily, there are a couple of generous compensations. Carole Shelley is so stingingly sarcastic as Ruth that the scenery shrivels. As Sarah, the super-housewife, Estelle Parsons yaps through the trilogy like an angry Peke. Funny is as useless a word to describe them as high is for Everest...
...pair of round-eyed Chihuahuas, led by a tweedy woman, minced past on the urine-spattered floor, each bearing on its back a tiny knapsack loaded with a pack of cigarettes, matches and sunglasses. But nothing distracted Handler Alford. Squinting through the smoke of her Winston, she turned the Peke over on his back and began to brush the long hair on his. belly with strokes that soon had him wheezing in relaxed delight...
...reported $8,500 three years ago and have scarcely seen him since; few owners who aspire to blue ribbons have the time or skill to handle their own dogs. Clara Alford, a half-Cherokee professional handler from Catoosa, Okla., put Gossie on the strict regimen of a Peke show dog, e.g., no romping with other dogs or children (he might damage an eye), no baths (his hair might mat). She stoked him on chopped steak laced with wheat germ, brushed his flowing reddish hair from two to nine hours a day. For eleven months a year, Gossie spent much...
...rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About those light-hearted broadcasts from Nazi Germany: they were just thoughtless mistakes. Mrs. Wodehouse explained defensively: "He just didn't realize." Wodehouse, bright enough when it comes to earning his living, said he was now four books ahead of himself, and the first would...