Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pure-bred dogs of eleven breeds on her 2,000-acre estate at Madison, N. J., where she holds an annual show of her own. In the past two years her dogs have won more best-in-show prizes than any other U. S. exhibitor's. Her pointer Nancolleth Markable was judged best dog in last year's Westminster show. Other fanciers were glad she was chosen judge this year because they consider her unexcelled in all-round knowledge of all dog breeds. They were also glad because the honor took her own formidable entries out of competition...
Redheaded, nervous, sloppy "Cump" Sherman was a West-Pointer but not a promising one. An officer during the Mexican War, he saw no action in it. When the Civil War began he had left the Army, failed as a banker, was living apart from his family as superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy. He liked the South, Southerners liked him. Though he was no abolitionist, and thought war between the States "all folly, madness, a crime against civilization," he refused a Southern command, went North to enlist. A colonel at the tragi-comedy of Bull Run, he chevied...
...name Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law, Inc. Last week it was announced that these two famed firms would merge. Chairman of Albert Frank-Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law, Inc. will be Adman Guenther. President will be Albert Frank's present head, able Frank James Reynolds, onetime newshawk, onetime West Pointer. The financial agency differs from the general agency chiefly in that its eye is ever focused on saving and investment, not upon greater & greater consumption. While the big financial agencies are tending to diversify (most also handle general advertising accounts) the bulk of their business is handling house and institutional advertisements...
...when Victoria hearkens to the voice of "her angel" as he climbs out on the golden bar of heaven. There is Professor Baxter addressing his class, even as though they were the Senate, in a voice of heavy fury to emphasize the lightning brain. There is the eraser, the pointer, the gentleman wearing the hat, the other nine hundred and ninety nine, and all arrive at unity through the ability of Professor Merriman. There is the calm precision of Professor Tucker as he unravels the skein of English literature. There is Mr. De Vote reducing the sophomore to a sentimental...
When a West Pointer speaks of "growley" he is referring either to tomato catchup or to a blush...