Word: mooche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes a wheedle whacker telephones the wrong mooch. One dynamiter recently tried to give the Russian Injection to the head of the Crime Section, U.S. Department of Justice...
...slickers who follow the trade have developed a lingo all their own. One who points the game is a bird dog. The prospect is a sucker or a mooch. An advance man who attracts the mooch is a bell cow. The man who makes the sale is a loader. The smoothie who takes the sucker a second time is the reloader. Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone. An argument for a difficult prospect is the Russian Injection...
Lauer, author of the famous interpretation of "Minny the Mooch" in connection with the Military Law Course, won the Commanding Officer's award, a set of gold bars and Air Force insignia, for being the "best all-round man of Class 7-43." Chvat, who was congratulated on being the highest ranking officer in his class, has been assigned to the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics...
Pandemonium reigned in Captain Ross F. Jones' moot court martial trial today with the arrival of Miss Minute Mooch upon the scene ably portrayed by Vincent Lauer. Everyone stood aghast not knowing whether or not they were looking at the real McCoy when Minnie fluttered her pink garters and gave the boys the Hula hip come...
...Arizona, having been elected in absentia. the Statistical School is very fortunate in having such a talented military instructor and especially one who is able to interject humor into what easily could be a boring course. At any rate the boys are all trying to date up Miss Minnie Mooch for the Business School prom...