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Word: mulligan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flavor has gone from Duffy's mulligan. I always liked Archie [but] I can't say as much for Ed Gardner. How come, he can't pay his share of the taxes like the rest of us . . .? CHUCK ABBOTT Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Lowell House Junior Common Room to hear Ellis Kaplan '46 and Samuel E. Stuart '45 defend unsuccessfully the negative position in the contest at Cambridge. Bradford Westerfield and William J. Graham, both of the Class of 1947, won the two-to-one decision for the Blue. Simultaneously, Melvin Mulligan '45 and Philip Ruppenthal '45 were defeated on the affirmative side of the issue at New Haven by an Eli team of Leo Graydill and Daniel McElroy, also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Teams Lose to Yale in opening Debates | 10/19/1946 | See Source »

...high powwow. The hoboes were glad to be back in Britt (pop.: 2,000), where they had met off & on since 1900. The "big spuds" (city officials) welcomed them because they lured some 10,000 curious North Iowa visitors to town. In gratitude, the boes ladled enough Mulligan stew from billycans to feed the crowd. They chewed the guff about life on the road and the state of the union. All agreed that times were tough. There were so many jobs to be had, it took an iron will to remain a hobo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Bad Days for the Bo | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man in a Derby | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Edward James McNamara, 60, jovial actors' actor; of a heart attack; in Boston. A Paterson (N.J.) policeman and baritone, Mac toured the" U.S. with Schumann-Heink, was one of Caruso's few pupils. In Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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