Word: mugged
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...that for the past two weeks, with the apparent connivance of Harvard College, my privacy, my rest, and my studies have all been interrupted by a seemingly inexhaustible horde of earnest young men. They have come to my door vending banners, newspapers, magazines, house cards, two varieties of beer mug, stationery, various organizations, and, it would appear, almost every other amenity of college life. They, of course, are in addition to that most obnoxious gentleman of all, the one armed with whistle and squeaky red wagon. He comes every night, chanting the litany of doughnut and sandwich in a voice...
...foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial wearing nothing else. In the Congo, an anonymous sculptor did a thick-lipped white sailor guzzling a mug of beer. The sailor wears a cap, a striped shirt, and seems properly in uniform-except that he is naked from the waist down...
...Cyclope; Zenith International) gives French Comedian Fernandel a three-quarter-ton co-star who can mug as well as he can, and certain questions at once arise. Will Fernandel let himself be cowed? Does the beautiful Marguerite make people eyes at him? The answer...
...morale what it lacks in morality. "England," says the colonel proudly, "always supplies the right man for the job. Even if it's the wrong job." Along the sound track at appropriate moments float snatches of martial music, and after B-day ("our finest hour"), many a brave mug's eye is misty as he bids his mates farewell. Happily, the well-mannered British police, always ready to give quod pro quid, arrange for a touching reunion of The League-in quarters provided by Her Majesty...
...ancient (and perhaps apocryphal) College rule once entitled students taking final or midyear examinations to receive a mug of ale at the end of the first hour. This sympathetic gesture seems rather anomalous for the strait-laced old Puritans who supposedly made it. Perhaps even they, despite their conviction that "all work and no play sends Jack to Heaven," had some unconscious qualms about the examination system...