Word: jugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether he is describing the sick terror in a Berlin Jewish apartment, twilight in the New Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...
...chalked up in the third round of the Texas Open by Harold ("Jug") McSpaden (in a warm-up round he shot 59). In the Miami Four-Ball Tournament Partners Ralph Guldahl & Sam Snead played nine holes...
With two ham sandwiches and a jug of coffee, he took off from Burbank, Calif. in one of his two-seaters, climbed his heavily loaded craft to 12,000 ft. and headed east. Averaging 30 miles to the gallon, he kept his Monocoupe on top of an overcast most of the way, kept himself on the course by listening to range stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost...
...time the Original Amateur Hour has turned up surprisingly few people who have got anywhere in big-time entertainment. Of the 5,000 who have signed the Major's "amateur's oath"-mouth organists, bell ringers, jug players, musical sawyers, garden-hose players, yodelers, tap dancers-most went back home to tend store, plow fields, marry, sell iceboxes with the memory of one shining moment in show business...
MIAMI, Fla.--Harold "Jug" McSpaden of Winchester, Mass wan the biggest prize of his tournament career to day when he shot a one-under par 69 to turn back a savage, last-round threat by Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., in the Miami open golf championship...