Word: mashed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already cold hand. True, a few shrewder individuals have been able to crash through to the inner regions, but it has only been after untold waiting and hair-breadth escapes from the rock-laden trucks that tear through Widener Gate to dump their loads elsewhere and race back to mash more book-carrying, hurrying, seersuckered miserables...
...bearded Allan D. Dowling, 43, who makes his money in real estate and spends some of it publishing his own avant-garde poems, had sent the Review a mash note. He thought it was the finest thing since the dear dead Dial, he said, and he offered to stake it to enough cash to make the Review in fact what John Dos Passos had called it: "The best literary magazine in America." Longtime Co-Editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv told Angel Dowling that they thought the job would take at least $50,000 a year...
...down," with few standouts in the higher slots. Where most teams are evenly graded from the top men downward, the Crimson lacks exceptional players and is more evenly matched right through the team. "In this situation," Barnaby says, "we won't be in a position to mash anyone, but we're at the mercy of a well-graded squad...
...handlers gave him a soft diet of bran mash and hay, and nothing to do all day. Then gradually he was brought up to form with long jogs and short workouts. A fortnight ago, at Florida's Hialeah Park, the Big Train raced again. He won-by a few inches. Last week, with 130 Ibs. on his back,† the brown gelding did it again. Neither race was an important one, but they were impressive warm-ups for the winter's big two: the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah next week and the $100,000 Santa Anita...
...peanuts When his peanuts are gone. . . . Ok, won't that be joyful, joyful, joyful, Oh, that will be joyful, when his peanuts are gone. There were many variations on the same theme, e.g.: When his John Wanamaker's endurable, reversible, sit-on-'em and mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug hats are gone...