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Dogs ... Their Day

... The dog enters the fashion cycle in every Leicester Cotton gives a man's impression of decade from 1655 to 1950. the dog as a dress accessory WHEN I was a small and curious boy, fashions seemed to change more often and in a very much more revolutionary ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1098 | Page: 49 | Tags: Illustrations 

Draught Dogs Yesterday And To-day

... of 300 lb. for one dog, or 400 lb. for two working together. in parrs 01 ciermany, Poland and Czechoslovakia, draught dogs were also employed, and all these countries had big, strong dogs trained for war pur poses. Some Polish dogs were ...

THE CASINO WAR

... page 70) The termination of the second World War brought about a marked sharpening of casino warfare n J 1 OfU- CAipS- uOorth 5,000 h. francs Croupiers CRake, v Cffirowinq the Wonte CaddiM/k The Casino War (Continued, from page 13) is kept heavy so as ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1612 | Page: 72 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Ever-Changing Fashions In Pedigree Dogs: There Will Be More Than 100 Breeds At Cruft's Show This Week

... that date the pedigree dog became annually more popular. Charles Cruft, the founder of the most famous dog show, was, of course, not the originator of dog shows, but he was the pioneer of well-organised shows. The first organised dog show was in 1859, and ...

Cat And Dog: The Perfectly Obvious Is Not Always The Right Clue In A Murder Problem

... bottle of tablets that had been issued to Adrian during the war when he was engaged on a secret mission. Hyoscine tablets. Quick killers. One of these tablets killed both your aunt and her dog. The post-mortem established that. You knew about those tablets ...

Published: Tuesday 01 August 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5112 | Page: 76 | Tags: Illustrations 

60 YEARS: HAS THE COUNTRY GONE TO THE DOGS?: Under the Impact of Mechanisation and Material Progress Rural Life ..

... 60 Years: Has The Country Gone To The Dogs? Under the Impact of Mechanisation and Material Progress Rural Life and Society, as it Was Known, has Virtually Disappeared By BRIAN VESEY -FITZGERALD WELL, here I am: on the edge of the sixties, approach ing ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2097 | Page: 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Causes Of Canine Hysteria

... (for the dog) if the man would send for it dis pensing in pyjamas being prefer able to turhing out in the snow on what promised to be a fruitless journey. Seven hours later, as arranged, man and dog appeared at the sur gery. It was a very small dog and a ...

The Dainty Papillons

... that have already established themselves in the hearts of the public. When those small dogs known as Papillons were introduced soon after the end of the first Great War, I had a feeling that they would meet with popular acceptance, so dainty and charming ...

Yellow Labradors' Progress

... they had made considerable i, progress before the war. The crown was put on the post- j war years at Cruft's last February, j when Mr. E. Winter's Dual Ch. i Staindrop Saighdear was awarded i the dog challenge certificate in keen competition, the entry ...

Ourselves When Young ...: Extracts From Our Issues of 1874

... favourite, although it suffered a temporary decline during the 1914-18 war. There were more than 400 Dachs hunds--long-haired, smooth- haired, wire-haired and miniatures j at the 1951 Cruft's Dog Show.) Betting on Racecourses At the Salford Town Hall Detective- ...

Misguided opposition to changes: It is only by adjusting and amending that progress will be made

... private match with four dogs on either side. With only eight dogs in, it really was all v. all, and the fascinating thing about the result was that the marks accurately reflected the performance and the relative success of the various dogs on the whole of the ...

PLAYWRIGHTS' TEST

... a miniature TV classic. David Kossoff, who played it so wonderfully, will he in both Tuesday's plays It Should Happen to a Dog and The Girl, with Diana Decker. It does seem rather perverse, having one playwright who has found his length, to double it ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 206 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations