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Word: egger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is Dartmouth, when the bell rings for classes ending, it plays everything from Mr. Five by Five to the Ave Maria. I heard them both. Those students are all as big and as tough-looking as ham-and-egger pugs, and they go in for checkered shirts, and G.I. fatigue pants...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacke'd Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, one Alexander Ivanovich Dorogokupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued by police and ushers. Said Dorogokupetz: "I vowed to put an end to this monotony of two years of consecutive swooning. . . . I took aim and threw . . . it hit him . . . his mouth was open . . . I felt good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Showfolk | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...Jovial, snow-thatched Albert J. McCray, 71, was not only a Townsendite but a Ham 'n' Egger ("Oh, boy, was I a booster for that!"). Now he runs a drill press at the Douglas plant, earns $51 a week with Sunday overtime, complains only that his foreman refuses to let him work every Sunday. Says Albert McCray: "I haven't been to the club there in some little bit. I'd rather have a job than a pension any time. Why, I'm making better than $175 a month here, more money than I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Dr. Townsend's Evil Days | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Grappling for the role of challenger for the world's heavyweight championship were two washed-up fighters: Barkeep Tony Galento, a beer-bibbing ham-&-egger who had never heard of the Marquess of Queensberry, and Madcap Maxie Baer, who had been floundering around in the second division since losing his world's title to Jim Braddock in 1935. Both were over 30, had already been knocked out by Champion Joe Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anything Goes | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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