Word: terrier
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...only bookish dreams of exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends Claude by putting his heart in a harlot's handbag. The immediate cause of so much frustration is given in Claude's stuffy mother, two fat, fretful aunts and an uncle with cold-storage hands...
TIME, Springfield, Mass. New York, N. Y. Apr. 1, 1925. Gentlemen: One of our friends has just told us that a letter in TIME of a recent date says that the word "Airedale," meaning a kind of terrier, is not in Webster. Although we have a copy of TIME every week, we didn't happen to see this letter; but we hope that you will tell your correspondent that "Airedale" is in your copy of Webster, which, of course, is a genunine Webster's New International. G. & C. MERRIAM...
...letter referred to (TIME, Mar. 30, Page 18, col. 3) asked for the origin of the Airedale terrier, and of his name...
...Airedale terrier was first bred in the valley of the River Aire (tributary to the Ouse), in England. The old English Terrier, a strong, fearless dog, good for vermin and dead game, lacked a good sense of smell. So the people of the Aire valley crossed it with the Otter Hound, making it keen-scented and giving it better watermanship. Other crosses were made to improve the breed. The dogs were first known as Waterside Terriers. The Airedale Agricultural Society, at a farm show, held the first exhibition of this class of dogs in 1879, and decided to give them...
...token of respect and collective regard," the Haverhill Kennel Club, of Massachusetts, sent the President a gift -another dog, "Cal's Pal," Boston terrier...