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With his Irish mug and scarred nose, Maney-who in appearance is a roustabout George M. Cohan-looks the part he plays. He also talks it. Without using cusswords he gets an effect of violent swearing from piled-up epithets, from a trick of calling people things like "low Kanakas," "foul Corsicans." He once called Billy Rose "a penthouse Cagliostro." Suspicious, Rose inquired who Cagliostro was. Said Maney: "An 18th-Century charlatan." "Say," said Rose, "that's swell...
Barred from a scheduled visit to the birthplace of Frances Willard* because the present occupants were quarantined with mumps, the delegates regaled themselves with such intricate concoctions as "Mug o' Joy," "Blackbird Giggles," "Sawdust Specials" (innocuous potions designed to show the superiority of nonalcoholic drinks over alcoholic ones), witnessed a pageant called "World Night" directed by Mrs. Boole, who announced that the war was interfering with the society's work, tied white ribbons on the wrists of twelve infants whose mothers pledged them to total abstinence, minimized the loss of Tennessee from the dry column, re-elected...
Before the bold Irish mug of the Ambassador to Great Britain appears again on TIME'S cover [Sept. 18] or before he runs for President, I hope Kathleen or her handsome mother can do something about those hornrimmed glasses he affects. Some Kennedys think themselves wise as owls. Joe must want to look like...
...varsity eight, with sophomore Jack Wilson replacing Bill Rowe at the vital stroke oar, sailed for England to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta. The varsity easily led London Rowing Club, Jesus College of Cambridge and Argonauts Rowing Club of Toronto in successive heats to win the great silver mug exactly 25 years after a Harvard junior varsity eight captained by Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, had captured...
Epochal scene: Freddie, feeling his oats, winning a tussle with crabby old Uncle Ebenezer, tossing off a mug of small beer and strutting about with today-I-am-a-man cocksureness...