Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most amazing drink invented by Professor Thomas is the BLUE BLAZER. His recipe: "Use two large silver-plated mugs, with handles. One wineglass of Scotch whiskey. One wineglass of boiling water. Put the whiskey and the boiling water in one mug, ignite the liquid with fire, and while blazing mix both ingredients by pouring them four or five times from one mug to the other. If well done this will have the appearance of a continuous stream of liquid fire. Sweeten with one teaspoonful of pulverized white sugar, and serve in a small bar tumbler, with a piece of lemon...
...Central Park, Manhattan, where, under the dark trees, thousands of couples play every night, there occurred last week an event innocent and charming. A boy so fat that he looked like a pudding walked through a crowd of 33,000 screaming children while he sipped a huge mug of milk...
Reproved for a listless workout in the gym, Jack Sharkey, heavyweight wide-mug challenger, blustered "You didn't hear Caruso yodeling high C's on streetcorners, did you? . . ." In the Pennsylvania station, Manhattan, Enrico Caruso was once heard by the late Critic James Gibbons Huneker singing for a flower girl who had asked for his signature...
...they must come down. The world moves on, and those who obstrud its progress can be converted to boosterism in the manner of His Honor. He was arrested afterwards, but not before as he modestly acknowledged in his inaugural address, had, "bounced his first off the then Mayor's mug...
...getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make young people see every side and sit on the fence would be to train up a generation of mug-wumps who would be singularly ineffective in practical life...