Word: spaniel
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...becoming interested in the nubile woman who is Lu Anne's stand-in. "Maybe there's something there, eh?" he asks his son. "Maybe nature didn't intend her for just an extra." Drogue the younger replies, "Nature intended her for a water spaniel. She can't name the days of the week...
Hard on the heels of last month's visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales, Nancy and Ronald Reagan are now entertaining a King Charles at the White House. A King Charles spaniel, that is. Rex, as he is regally named, should reign longer as First Dog than did his recently deposed predecessor, Lucky, whose 65 lbs. and high spirits got him exiled to the Reagan ranch in California after only a year at the White House. Fully grown at 16 lbs., Rex promises to be more compatible with the diminutive First Lady. Furthermore, he has impeccable conservative papers...
...period of six years or so after my father brought a dog home and the dog snarled at me, knocked me over and chased me upstairs into my room. I was terrified of dogs at that point. But then I made friends with our neighbor's cocker spaniel. Since then I've had one dog after another...
...this respect, Ferraro seemed at least as success ful as a previous vice-presidential candidate in a bind. Eight presidential elections ago, a young Republican Senator named Richard Nixon went on TV to justify his receipt of political donations ? and of a cocker spaniel named Checkers. Nixon, of course, faced only the camera, not 200 reporters, and he had a script. With Ferraro, every thing is different, special, more consequential. The stakes are higher because whatever happens to Ferraro happens to a pioneer, a historic figure. Mondale edged close to a complaint about the intense public focus last week...
...volatile aux poivrons are at hand on the big, 6-ft. by 12-ft. marble worktable, along with peppers, tomatoes, fresh corn. Franey, who is wearing a tennis shirt and khakis, puts on a blue denim apron that matches Claiborne's. His dogs, a Labrador and a spaniel, array themselves on the red tile floor. He banishes to outer darkness a bottle of strong, dark Italian olive oil, with which Claiborne has been whisking up mayonnaise, and replaces it with a can of clear, rational French olive oil. He is ready. He halves a red pepper, halves a green...