Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corragio!" cried the Captain and over the side went Gennaro Amatruda, a rope round his waist, a hammer in his belt, a monkey rope with a wooden plug and a rope mat in his hand. Seventy feet down he worked, sometimes swinging high in the air, sometimes soused deep in the creamy waves. Five other men were on shorter ladders trying to keep him from being dashed against the side of the ship. After a breathless, drenching hour, the monkey rope was passed through the hole, the plug hammered home. On the inside Staff Captain Giorgio Cavallini and the chief...
...patois of pugilism, "natural" is a noun. It means a fight between two popular, able plug-uglies with a definite issue at stake. The natural in the lightweight division has been for some time a match between cocky little Tony Canzoneri, whose puffy mouth stretches all the way across his broad, flat face, and saturnine, hammer-handed Billy Petrolle, "The Fargo Express," with Canzoneri defending his title. It was scheduled for last summer, postponed when Petrolle hurt his arm in training, finally fought out last week before a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...
...Moses' campaign expenses. He hasn't been a square-shooter in New Hampshire politics in a generation. He votes dry and drinks wet, pats the War veteran on the back with one hand and cuts his throat with the other." Husky Senator-elect Brown chews Navy cut plug, makes a thundering speech...
...posthumous melodrama of prolific Edgar Wallace to reach this country are: an ancient English family seat where two murders have been committed; an imperious lady (Alexandra Carlisle) who goes about praising her ancestors and trying to hide evidence; her amiable son (Emlyn Williams), her frightened niece (Katherine Wilson); two plug-ugly footmen, one romantic, one comic and one effective police officer. Less vigilant spectators will be in anxious seats until Actor Williams begins to smile late in Act III. The cast of this loosely pasted thriller snoop, scream, poke their hands through false panels in professional manner. Actor Williams...
Persuaded to choose a more temperate course, McGloin first tries to buy out Fordham, then West Point and Annapolis. Finally he founds a Carnarsie University, acquires competent coaches, converts his stable of plug-uglies and wrestlers into a terrifying football team. After a season of phenomenal success. McGloin accepts a post-season game against an obscure team called Lake Shore University. Soon after the contest starts, McGloin realizes what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot...