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Word: plugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cigarettes are banned from Kansas tobacco stores but there have been substituted a thousand varieties of little cigars, perhaps less harmful to youth. The agricultural plug, however, still abounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUNFLOWER SIMPLICITY | 3/25/1926 | See Source »

...illustrations by J. O. Whedon are also contributions. The first, a caricature of winged Mercury perched on a fire-plug with beckoning finger, is entitled "Hey! Taxi!" and the other, drawn in collaboration with Cannon, represents a "Design for a Hall Closet by Cecil B. de Mille". The palatial proportions of the chamber featured are a perfect burlesque upon the grandeur so dear to the heart of the cinema producer. It is to be hoped that the President-elect of the Lampoon will continue the contribution generiously to the pages of the publication for which he will be responsible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAIN OF MIDYEARS HITS MT. AUBURN ST. | 1/29/1926 | See Source »

...hands seized him from behind, tore the satchel from his grasp, bound his wrists with wire. Cruel hands sloshed wet quicklime into his eyes, jammed wet mortar into his protesting mouth, flung him into a closet with his eyeballs sizzling, his teeth and tongue fast setting into their mortar plug. . . . Some hours later, Joe, laborer, rescued, doctors revived poor Plasterer Duminuco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rescue | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...lurcher-revealed by a street light as a big blackamoor in a stiff shirt (badly smutted) and a dented plug-hat-beamed amiably and continued his uncertain gambol up the empty street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Louis Phal | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...fact patent to all that if burly Berlenbach ("the Astoria Assassin") did not get up shortly, Delaney would be the light-heavyweight champion of the world. For a moment everybody began to feel sorry for the prone ex-taxi-driver, one of the most unpopular plug-uglies that has ever held a world's title, but yet an individual that few people have had the opportunity to feel sorry for. It is true that his face is the face of an assassin, true that his style of fighting is, to say the least, ungracious, but he owns two qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Delaney v. Berlenbach | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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