Word: buffum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RICHARD A. BUFFUM...
...Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
Cleared by a Los Angeles jury of a charge that he had caused a man to be falsely arrested for loitering about his house, lurching, lachrymose Cinecomic Wallace Beery breezed cheerily out of court on the arm of Mrs. Loreen Buffum Robinson, a wealthy Manhattan widow whom he would like to make his third wife. Burbled he: "I probably ask her every day, and she probably refuses me every day. But I'm not giving up. I'm no fool...