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Word: lugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been trying ever since I received the first number of your magazine to decide just what your standards are. In articles in which you have condemned pornographic magazines you have yet managed to give in your own columns a sniff of their odor. You occasionally lug into your news items terms not usually found outside of medical journals. You have an irritating habit of dubbing people with names according to their calling or accomplishments, a style of writing that gives an impression of veiled sarcasm from which no one is immune. Your latest accomplishment has been to find (issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Petronius is attracted to a boot-legging cafe which has already been raided once and to a orgiastic dancing club where whites and negroes mingle, it is not necessary for him to lug his weaknesses into print. These faults in literary taste are exactly those which another reviewer in commenting soundly on "Wild Asses" and "Wild Marriage" scored, and they are far from being characteristic of the Bookshelf as a whole. Frederick deW Pingree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petronius Belabored | 3/31/1925 | See Source »

...smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses. Aside from these industries, it busied itself right patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with as little prospect of success." Her family's savory reputation left her little choice of a career. Her mother was the town scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Golden Ladder* | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

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