Word: mugwump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cousin, Ogden Livingston Mills, conspicuously printed: "Miss Lucy Randolph Mason, general secretary of the National Consumers' League . . . said that she had been so impressed by Governor Winant's address that although I've never voted the Republican ticket I'd like to turn Mugwump and nominate him for President.' " Taking the cue, the Times man covering the address apostrophized the speaker as one "who has been mentioned for the Republican nomination for the Presidency...
Died. Richard Rogers Bowker, 85, publisher, author, retired utilitarian; at his home near Stockbridge, Mass. Indefatigable in 19th Century politics, he founded the ''Mugwump'' Party (first called the ''Young Scratchers") which swung the 1880 Republican convention to Garfield. He founded the American Library Association...
...Editor Edmond William Nicholls of Bookseller & Collector wrote about dial telephones as follows: "The telephone authorities have presented us with an excellent plaything and aid to memory. ... If I want to call a number such as MUrray Hill 4-9867, I have not to memorize it. I just dial 'Mugwump' and it comes at once. Ravenswood 8-7243 Is 'Sausage.' Columbus 5-0639 is too much to carry in the mind at one time, so I dial 'Boloney' and get it swiftly. . . . My only regret is I cannot do anything better than 'Plesido' with my own number...