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Word: mugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There, beside the solemnities, perhaps the somnolence, of education lie, not only mirror, puff, and vanity case but shaving brush and lotion--and, one hopes, a porcelain mug labelled "Papa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATHER AND BLATHER | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...every heart, on every tongue, there was but one name, Hindenburg. . . . Every maid in the most distant forester's lodge knew that head, which the people call 'a majestic brow of thunder,' and the Kaiser, in his jealous rage, termed 'a sergeant's mug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Harden's Contemporaries | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...half an hour after his recital was billed to begin. When at last he entered, he began to thump the keys in an unmerciful manner, forcing his tone, letting his left hand get in front of his right and pouring out his music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries the air of having been written for him by Wagner; he tumbled a sunset thunder-mountain into the fustian stalls of Carnegie Hall; he rocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Dec. 7, 1925 | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...keep her? He buys Charm, 412 pages for $8.27, reads the last chapter, on "Sex Appeal". A very adequate and pretty plot, this, for a musical comedy-it offers neat openings for such songs as That snug gle-up-and-hug-store, That hold me tight and- mug-store- That clove-kissing, licoricing, Drug-store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 14, 1925 | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...after he has first made calf-eyes over a piano solo. Of course the husband isn't killed?though Dan is? and after the little child rushe's to his regenerated mother's arms, the good-hearted denizens of the saloon bury their noses in a sentimental mug of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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