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Word: bashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bummy Davis, who used to be one of the toughest kids in Brooklyn's notoriously tough Brownsville section, had punched his way into the big time with a lambasting left hook. Bash-nosed Fritzie Zivic, youngest of Pittsburgh's five "Fighting Zivics," is no angel either. Teethed on a fighter's mouthpiece, he learned all the tricks of the family trade before his voice changed, picked up a few more during some 200 professional prizefights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It Was a Pleasure | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...CURTAIN FOR CRIME-M. P. Rea-Crime Club ($2). A series of department-store murders wrings the heart of Salesgirl Linda Thorne, who fears that her blonde roommate or her young man may be guilty. It starts with a bash in the drapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in April | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Oboist Marcel Tabuteau, Clarinetist Bernard Portnoy, Bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, Hornist Mason Jones; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A sweet, 18th-Century woodwind "bash" (jam session), spotlighting the pure purlings and tootlings of Philadelphia's high-priced soloists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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