Word: terriers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like to bathe in the same water twice." He is allergic to the mere presence of children. When he spies an urchin in his bank, brandishing a toy pistol, Fields pounces like a terrier on a rat, has to be pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard and Jessie Ralph, bearing...
Ayers put the Crimson out in front by a 3 to 1 count in 13:35 when he scored almost from the blue line on a shot which caught the Terrier net minder off balance. Caleb Loring and Sherm Gray had previously been toying with the pack and were credited with assists...
...pairs of identical twins who had been separated since infancy. In some cases they had not even met since childhood. Many had lived strikingly similar lives. "Edwin" and "Fred," for example, both became electricity repair men, married the same year; each had a baby son and a fox terrier named Trixie...
...Elizabeth is said to be the only heir to the British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect tinfoil, roll bandages, knit socks for Tommy Atkins. Elizabeth contributes from her savings to the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Air Ambulance Fund, buys National War Savings Bonds which are beyond the penny means of her little sister...
...were unable to render the baying of a beagle, De Mille dispatched six of them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted to imitate Mr. Smith, the wire-haired terrier of The Awful Truth. Another imitator discovered by Lux was George Arliss, who supplemented his performance on one show with several fine peacock screeches...