Cruft
Britishnoun
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Despite Mr Cruft dying two years later, his wife took over to ensure the dogs would keep on running with their prize-winning displays.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
Named after its founder Charles Cruft, the dog show took place for the first time in 1891 at the Royal Agricultural Hall in Islington, where more than 2,000 dogs were entered.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
Mr Cruft was an ambitious man who left college to sell "dog cakes" - food filled with meat, wheat and vegetables - having no desire to join the family jewellery business.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop.
From Time Magazine Archive
Palmer followed Johnson into line, and under the personal direction of Rosecrans the brigades of Hazen, Cruft, and Grose were formed in echelon and ordered forward, immediately encountering Cheatham's men and becoming fiercely engaged.
From Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888. by Boynton, Henry V.
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