Word: setter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blue Dan of Happy Valley, Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten's English setter, often a best-dog-in-show...
...second Freshman crew is scheduled for a mile race against Groton School today on the Nashua. Stroked by A. M. Brown '34, last year's "Grotty" pace-setter, who led his crew in a defeat of Noble and Greenough School in the traditional encounter last spring, the junior shell has provided the firsts with unusual competition, according to Coach Haines. The lineup is as follows: Stroke, Brown; 7, Gridley Barrows '34; 6, W. S. Wellington '34; 5, J. H. Packard '34; 4, A. F. Chace, Jr. '34; 3, C. S. Denny '34; 2, J. A. Martin...
...held last week in Boston was vivacious Weltona Frizette of Wildoaks, wire-haired Fox Terrier owned by Mrs. Richard C. Bondy of Goldenbridge, N. Y. Last month she sulked listlessly at the Westminster Kennel Club show in Manhattan, won nothing (TIME, Feb. 23). Blue Dan of Happy Valley, English Setter who just missed being best-in-show at Manhattan, missed again, was again second...
...many thieves, that genial Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale leaves the door of his New Haven home unlocked, so that friends may come in and borrow the books he is sent for review, of which there are several hundred stacked on a table adjacent. An old red setter named Rufus (which color-blind Dr. Phelps says he sees march about as a green dog) guards the books, knows the patrons of this "lending library," barks at the approach of any unaccustomed person...
...trouble. The weather was warm and grey; rain threatened. Rex's Tar-heelia, Rumson Farm Queen, Junedale Lady Bird made some mistakes. Some of the dogs were pointing land turtles and stink-birds; several times deer interfered with the trials. Yankee Doodle Jack, black & white setter, looked best with six bevies and a single, but Shore's Carolina Jack was still in it. A wonderful last day might put him in the finals; otherwise the national field championship would be between Mary Blue, champion in 1929, and Yankee Doodle Jack. Mary Blue, white & liver pointer bitch owned...