Word: setter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's trials throughout the South, pointers won so regularly that the old pointer v. setter argument seemed academic long before Edward R. Coleman's pointer Susquehanna Tom won the Grand National. In minor meets this winter, setters have won almost as many firsts as pointers but pointers have won the more important prizes. Of the 16 dogs entered for the Grand National, run last week over the Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., only two were setters and the favorite, if there was one, was Walter C. Teagle's white & liver pointer, Norias...
...swooping dabs from his owner's hairbrush as he bounced along. Close on his heels, in ridiculous contrast, stalked huge, brindled Great Dane Gunar von Hollergarten, best working dog. Then came liver & white Norman of Hamsey, an English Springer Spaniel who had barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon on his topknot made French Poodle Whippendell Poli of Carillon, best non-sporting dog, look...
...read Daddy's TIME every week. Nov. 21 you published a letter, "Babies and Dogs." I am a boy 10 years old. I had a beautiful setter that was a constant guard, companion and friend until I was 8. Then she died. I now have a nice police dog, one of the seven million dogs mentioned, I guess. I have a little friend who has what Dad says is just "a mangy cur,'' another of the seven millions, but Bobby loves him just as much as I love my police dog, and it would...
Brave and British to the core is 19-year-old Mrs. Kenneth Pawley of Newchang on the Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
Inglehurst Joker, Charles Inglees' Gordon setter...