Word: setter
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Bashan, "a short-haired setter" with a broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been treated to an antique hero's chorus, a three-legged limping approach, an uncontrollable wailing and self-lamentation." Bashan pretends to be a mighty hunter before his lord, actually never kills any thing but field mice, though he thinks him self a ravening threat to rabbits. He once caught...
...style of architecture known to man within 50 miles of New York. Until last week, however, the questing art student could not have found a proper Hans Andersen Gingerbread House. This omission has been rectified through a union of the talents of Joseph Urban, globular Viennese Architect and stage setter, and the enthusiasm of Fred H. Bennett, whole-wheat flour man ("Wheatsworth" crackers...
...these characteristics are visible in the dog which Judge von Stephanitz designated at Madison as best-of-breed (and by this judgment, style-setter for 1930) : Champion Utz von Haus Schutting of Mardex Kennels, Ardsley, N. Y. Champion Utz is a long, low, dark dog with powerful forequarters, splendid. It was a friendly sniff which Champion Utz gave his judge. He had smelled him before, last year in Germany, when Judge von Stephanitz once before pronounced him seiger...
...Eagle Ferris, $5,000 pointer: The open all-age stake at the spring trials of the Kentucky Pointer & Setter Club at Camp Knox, beating Champion Frank Brown's Sam. setter...
...account of another setter who has beaten Pointer Mary Blue...