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Word: bums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminisced: "The stories were written in a Victorian age. ... If I did them today, I'd make the characters more natural. Frank used to say, 'You're a great guy.' Now I'd make him say, 'You're a damned fine old bum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

About Galento, Joe Louis' only recorded remark is: "What fo' dat funny li'l fat man want to go 'round callin' me a bum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beers and Bums | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

What happened here was that a spanish bum and red did throw some Orange peels at a german marine while they paid their respect to our great martyr "Marti" at his monument with a flower design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Over the back bar in the saloon run by Antonio Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Galento in Orange, N. J. there hangs a sign saying: JOE LOUIS IS A BUM. Two-ton Tony Galento-a lumpy, hog-fat heavyweight who won a sort of succès d'estime last year by bowling over fever-racked Nathan Mann faster than Joe Louis did-has been snarling defiance at Louis ever since scheming Fight Manager Joe Jacobs took him over three years ago. For the seven years before that, Tony Galento, who trains on beer and does his road work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beers and Bums | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beers and Bums | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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