Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frankie was scheduled to make twelve appearances in Melbourne (pop. 1,522,-930) and 14 in Sydney (pop. 1,861,685). In Melbourne his arrival was front-page news, but he disappointed thousands of fans by ducking into a waiting car ("Let's see the mug," yelled the fans. "Is he too proud to show himself?"). He missed a big luncheon party and was the target of jeers and attempted violence by young toughs but he and his troupe sang for some 55,000 people in four days. "This is the greatest," he said in Sydney...
Gourmet. In West New York, N.J., Mrs. Helen Schroeder told a judge that when she asked her husband if he wanted bacon and eggs, he hurled a shaving mug at her, punched her in the eye, shouted: "My stomach isn't a garbage...
Small Talk. In El Centro, Calif., charged with assault with a deadly weapon for hitting Joe Gilbert over the head with a beer mug "because he was mumbling in his beer," Virgil Slimp, 26, had the charge reduced to simple assault when he was able to prove that Gilbert made a habit of mumbling in his beer...
...press secretary to Australia's Labor Party leader, Herbert V. Evatt. young (26) ex-Reporter Fergan O'Sullivan achieved public and private recognition on the same day two months ago. In public, Australian newsmen voted to give him a silver mug for his help to the press during the Labor Party's unsuccessful election campaign this spring. In private, the government subpoenaed him to appear before an Australian royal commission investigating Soviet espionage...
...Aussie crowd cheered happily, and the shout drifted to Seixas' burning ears: "Go home, you mug!" "Come down here and say that!" shouted Seixas at the stands, then went on to lose the match...