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Word: bumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ditches a well-intentioned but bum bling Anglo-Indian, because he has "ten thumbs and a soul like a boiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eight-Anna Girl | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...voyages were punctuated by Homeric booze-feats ashore, a slum-bum stretch when he lived at Jimmy the Priest's saloon in Manhattan and slept on the hickory-topped tables, too broke to pay $3 a month for a room. At 24, hospitalized with a mild case of tuberculosis, he began to think about writing plays. Primed on Ibsen and Strindberg, he enrolled in Professor George Pierce Baker's famed 47-Workshop at Harvard. His first published play, The Web, was set in a squalid boardinghouse. Its three main characters (not counting an illegitimate baby in the cradle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouble with Brown | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Family: Business. In Nashville, arrested for drunkenness, George W. Hughes startled police by giving his occupation as "bum," explained: "Well, my dad is a bum, and I just work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...poor wretch, but replied, "Well, you must have that O.K.ed by an officer." Then she left her cage, walked to a guard and gave the rascal in charge. After searching him, finding neither weapons nor money, the guards threw him out of the bank. "We thought he was a bum," they explained. The next back he tried also ignored the would be bandit untill he was leaving, when police finally collared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wages of Sin | 12/3/1953 | See Source »

Carl Hall denied having killed Bobby. He said that another bum, a tattooed sex degenerate named Thomas John Marsh. 37, had shot the boy when Hall and Bonnie Heady were not around. Police were skeptical, but a nationwide alarm went out for Marsh's arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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