Word: mugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to arouse some enthusiasm for Der Alte Kaiser fortnight ago during bourgeois Vienna's enthusiastic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the introduction of the Wienerwurst, by broadcasting the fact that Franz Josef's breakfast was almost invariably a pair of sausages, a portion of horseradish and a mug of beer. Last week they did their centenary-celebrating in Hungary, which with recurring rumors of 17-year-old Archduke Otto's enthronement in November, grows daily more Habsburg-conscious...
...September, the New York World cabled the tea tycoon, received the same day a reply: "Many thanks. . . . Glad to say I am feeling in excellent health and am quite willing to take on Jack Dempsey. . . . Am looking forward with the greatest pleasure to another contest for the famous old mug and am confident the Shamrock will put up a good show...
...Lorimer. Or work for the Brooklyn papers, like the Eagle. They raise you till you get seventy-five a week and then fire you. They'll hire you back the next day for forty. Or work for Mr. Hearst, he pays the best. Sure he does, until some mug blows in from Chicago who's a friend of the efficiency boys. I tell you, anybody who goes into this racket is crazy...