Word: muffin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Davenport, Dubuque & Iowa R. R., between the towns of West Saug and North Saug. It had its "prettiest girl in town;" its half a dozen churches, with the attendant meetings of the "Gleaners" every Wednesday afternoon; its church sociables, known among the Gentiles as "tea-fights" and "muffin-scrambles," and all the other necessary opportunities for gossip kindly provided by every such institution with "a vigorous religious life...
...Lampoon says that Jarvis Field has become a bake-shop since some fielders have turned their attention to muffin rolls. Lampy must recollect that flies are troublesome...