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Word: castoffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening game of yesterday's double bill, league-leading Kirkland downed what players Dudley could muster behind the slants of varsity castoff Frank McNutt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Nine Edges Lowell; Deacons Win | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

...become one of Montparnasse's topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing if I was sober") at the two-by-four cabaret called the Jockey Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Memory Lane | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Castoff. In Rio de Janeiro, Amalia, an aging elephant, took sick, was purged, passed an old tennis shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Mucho Gusto was no Whirlaway. But he will long be remembered as one of the truly remarkable thoroughbreds of the U.S. turf. Son of a castoff mare named Sweetheart Time and a stallion that had been sold without pedigree at the Lexington stockyards, he was reared in a small grassless paddock behind the Latonia race track. His owner, the track superintendent, sent him out to earn his oats in cheap claiming races.* The biggest purse he ever won was $5,000. Nevertheless, when his name was finally scratched last week, Mucho Gusto's record read: 63 victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gold Plater | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Ducky Medwick. Last week, while Rookie Reese was on the side lines with a broken heel bone and Slugger Medwick was hitting like a bush leaguer, Brooklyn fans crammed Ebbets Field to salute the player they consider the most valuable Dodger of the year: Pitcher Freddy Fitzsimmons, a Giant castoff picked up for a song three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unpredictable Dodgers | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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