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...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...
...sounded blasphemous at the time. He was as rampant in politics. President Hayes' administration he called "a bread pudding." A Republican from the earliest years of that party, he left it when in 1884 James G. Blaine ran for the Presidency against Grover Cleveland. He called himself a "Mugwump," a political purist. Pastor Beecher was full-blooded; dared not eat red meat. His only outdoor exercise was croquet. He died of aponlexy...
...well up in the financial profession. Two years later, he became a partner of J. P. Morgan. But the gulf that yawns today between Wall Street and Vesey Street, where the now pinko Nation is published, was narrower in those days. The Nation was still a "little American," a Mugwump, a champion of "intellectual minorities" rather than an assailant of "the predatory interests." Thomas W. Lamont, banker, and Hammond Lamont, editor, were not the poles apart that "Wall Street" and The Nation have since become...
...clubmen in training for business have collected a mass of really professional advertisements. The more juvenile members of the club who still have a taste for collecting things have clipped a fair sample of the best and the worst jokes from the various funny papers such as the Tennessee Mugwump, the American Legion Weekly, and the Daily Mail. The fact that a number of these jokes are really funny indicates that the young collectors have not yet caught the solemn spirit of the ancient rite...
...mugwump is no more likely to force a good measure upon a party by holding the balance of power than he is to force a bad one upon...