Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail for pawning jewels which did not belong to him. His Grace repeated his most famed phrase: "The trouble is I have been a mug." Also proved a noble "mug" was the fourth Lord Revelstoke, handsome young scion of the House of Baring, whose father was a famed British financier and whose mother was the daughter of U. S. Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard. Suing for breach of promise, one Angela Joyce, "Miss England of 1930," produced...
After six months at home, three-year-old Johnny Woods was last week behaving little better than his twin brother Jimmy, whom their father called a "mug." This was news because Johnny almost from birth had undergone special training at Manhattan's Medical Center whereas Jimmy had been allowed to develop like any ordinary child. As a result when the twins were sent home for good, "conditioned" Johnny was a fearless little acrobat with a personality far in advance of his years and "unconditioned"' Jimmy was just a plain laughing, crying, scary youngster (TIME, July 30). Last week...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
...While Johnny postured for company Jimmy reached across the table and ate up all Johnny's soup. "Stop that, Jimmy," cried Father Wood. Jimmy stopped, then surreptitiously kicked Johnny on the shins under the table. Explained Father Wood: "Johnny's a gentleman, but Jimmy's a mug." Added Mother Wood, wearily: "Jimmy's much more bossy. When he wants something...
...demonstrate, Jimmy the Mug tried to eat a cigaret. He yelled for a drink of beer, turned on the gas jets of the kitchen stove, refused to jump off the icebox. Doctors who will doubtless follow the Woods twins for many a year hope to have this question answered: Will the present differences between Johnny and Jimmy persist as they go through kindergarten, school and workaday life? There has been no scientific evidence one way or another. Professor Frederick Tilney, Dr. McGraw's supervisor in the experiment, last week doubted that Johnny's present advantage would last long...