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Word: mugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above mug is special. It comes from Germany and plays music when picked up. Comes in a variety of well-known drinking songs. It's a new twist for mug collectors and drinkers alike and is the sort of thing you can give to a roommate or friend who has all the ordinary gadgets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions... | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

...above mug is special. It comes from Germany and plays music when picked up. Comes in a variety of well-known drinking songs. It's a new twist for mug collectors and drinkers alike and is the sort of thing you can give to a roommate or friend who has all the ordinary gadgets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

Perfection in pure, beaten pewter is one of the hallmarks of EVANS INTERNATIONAL, at 61 Church. The flask and mug above provide for the drinking man at home and away. Either can be engraved or fitted with the Harvard seal. The flask is priced at $4.50, and the mug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...panel of five moppets who solve such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...thus far unsponsored, originates in California but owes more to Minsky's than to Hollywood, as Colonna is propelled with quivering mustache, freewheeling eyes and hog-calling tenor through a series of burlesque skits. As a barber, he uses a chamberpot for a shaving mug; on a rocket to the moon, he nuzzles a blonde stowaway; as a TV repairman, he pulls a battered corset from a TV set, crying: "Your condenser is weak!" Best example of Colonna's Klaxon charm: his screech-voiced assault on the popular song, My Heart Cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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