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Word: spaniel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...about ruthlessly suppressing dissension in the land, then roared that he would order a lettre de cachet (imprisonment without trial) of anyone advocating separate peace-including Cabinet Ministers. The argument crackled and burned. Suddenly heavy-faced Edouard Daladier stormed out of the room. Sarraut and de Monzie, spaniel-like Ministers of Education and Public Works, followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reynaud the Frenchman | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Last week up for sale went one Silex top ("I'll sell it for 50?; it's like brand-new"); one electric fly catcher for $12, a black & white cocker spaniel ("I'll trade it for a piano"); a $10,000 Monterey home for $7,500. Up, too, went Folger coffee sales, with a 16% increase over the entire area covered by the programs since their inception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bargains By Air | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...shows a student trying to play an ocarina while reading from a badly crumpled piece of music. "Sea Breeze," by Walter Rogers, is a picture taken by the seashere with the beach grasses giving way before the wind. Kirkham Cornwell's "Mike" is a sopia picture of a cooker spaniel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Photographs Currently on Exhibit in Union Show Expert Skill in Varied List of Subjects | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

...France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold Eagle Tavern at Beaufort (pronounced Bufert), S. C. There last week she and her cocker spaniel, Billy, savored the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elizabeth's Autumn Garden | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Many a U. S. dog-owner could take a vicarious pride in Champion My Own Brucie, only dog to win both the Morris & Essex and Westminster in one year. For the lopeared, silky cocker spaniel is the most popular dog in the U. S. today. Among the 108 breeds registered with the American Kennel Club, cocker spaniels (18,500) far outnumber all others. Smallest (18 to 24 Ibs.) and merriest of the sporting spaniel family, whose early members were used for hunting in Spain as far back as 1386, the cocker has become America's sweetheart because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocker | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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