Word: setter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Coast Guard, which trains dogs to help hunt saboteurs, an Irish setter named Ambrose was dishonorably discharged last week. Ambrose caught his practice "saboteur" and threw him down. Then, instead of ripping the padding off his victim, Ambrose stuck out his tongue and licked him lovingly...
...hernia - on a woman at Blackwell's almshouse (now New York City's Welfare Island). He made his fortune during many years of operating on five or more patients a day, becoming the grand old man of Manhattan surgery. His limousine, with driver and red setter in front, the doctor and his sociable wife in back, is a familiar sight on tree-lined 70th Street where he lives...
Appearing in the Music Building yesterday to sketch the cultural background of the Middle Ages for Music 1 students, Roger B. Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, co-starred with an intruder in the form of a large Irish Setter...
...writing a novel that purported to be a microcosmic study of the world going fascist and I was glad to pay the price of a moderate amount of such listening for information on the technique of cultural penetration and on the proper use of the so-called setter people of a community in preparation tor the coming of the Nazis...
...firm by his father when he showed signs of getting married. Park's father tried to act like an English squire by smelling of tweeds, eau de cologne and tobacco, and by tracking birds across the Long Island marshes, accompanied by his docile wife and an unsatisfactory setter. His generation was bothered by taxes, the New Deal, and the encroachment of the big city and its Sunday panzer divisions. Park's generation was bothered, intermittently, by the prospect that the war might reduce its scale of living or upset its weekly routine-mild drinking on week nights, tennis...