Word: spaniel
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...like a slightly bowlegged, apartment-size (13-15 in. high) foxhound. Last week, as a reward for his amiable ways, the beagle was acclaimed No.1 U.S. purebred dog by the American Kennel Club. With a population of 45,398 registered A.K.C., the beagle nosed the friendly, flop-eared cocker spaniel (pop. 43,561) into second place, after a record 17 years as the national favorite. The other ranking breeds, in order: boxers, dachshunds, collies, Chihuahuas, German shepherds, Boston terriers, Pekingese, and standard poodles...
...French Resistance leader and author of the 1944 novel, The Silence of the Sea. Coming as it does only a few months after French Novelist Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...
...Clocker Spaniel's paying off down at the Crime today...
After missing nine out of nine last year the old Clocker Spaniel hesitantly dusts off his Crystal Ball for his predictions on the local horse racing opener at Lincoln Downs. Nine races are on tap, with the track listed as slow...
...hand and begged him never to come back. But a kindly bank manager hired Edmond as a clerk, and Edmond did so well (the customers appreciated his "good breeding") that he might have remained a bank clerk forever, had not a female employee played tag with his trusting, spaniel-like affections. Edmond began to gambol in the stock market, and soon became wealthy. He bought a painting by Rosa Bonheur called Sheepdog Pursuing a Sheep and Woman with Dog by Matisse...