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Word: bobbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that Browning is an old fool to carry on with a baby like 'Peaches'," Bob Lampoon told a Crimson reporter yesterday at his home 22 Grand Street. "It's just like he was going around with his own daughter. She ain't so good-looking either, but she knows what's what. I reckon her to be about 20, and just anxious to get into the public's eye. She's just silly, and I don't know why so many women rush to that there court to hear all that trash. But its 'spicy' and that's what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESTER'S JANITOR IS G. B. S. OF GRAND ST. | 2/4/1927 | See Source »

...Reed: "I dare say they will bob again. I am not going to say anything mean, although I find it pretty hard not to?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Wrangle | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Died. Robert P. ("Big Bob") Brindell, 47; onetime Manhattan labor Tsar; in Manhattan, of lung infection. As dock laborer he first organized 3,000 longshoremen, who paid him $18,000 a year (50c a month per man) for securing wage increase. Founding the Building Trades Council (1919), he came into command of 115,000 men, gave diamonds, automobiles, to friends. Imprisoned for extensive extortion (1921), he was released (1924) minus friends, health and most of the $1,000,000 he had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Died. Wilfred, "The Royal Rabbit" (TIME, Aug. 30), gobbled by a stray dog which broke into Wilfred's pen near Bolton Abbey, the estate of the Ninth Duke of Devonshire. The King-Emperor had purchased one-half of Wilfred for ten shillings from Bob Tomlinson, the local rector's son, and presented this fractional interest to Bob's sister Kathleen who already owned the other half of Wilfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

There gentlemen were quick to explain that this was not an old Lampoon custom but a Christmas present. Whedon, when interviewed, declined to comment, but Bob Lampoon, who was appointed guinea guardian extraordinary, suggested that this was not a surprise in so much as the Lampoon had been keeping birds of one feather or another for some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guinea Hens Join Yard Cops, Cercle, and Tutors in Grays Basement--Lampoon Heads Silent on Rumored Banquet | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

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