Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Tarzana, Calif, (named after his tree-swinging nature-man) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...
With vacation season scorching along, the hottest item in any radio salesroom this week is a natty, luggage-style, portable radio that runs on batteries, needs no wall plug or aerial outlet, can be toted squawking along in a car, a canoe, on a bicycle. With 200,000 of these already sold since their introduction last autumn by Philco, 28 manufacturers who now make them hope to sell some 500,000 more this season at prices ranging from...
...batteries in average use have a life of 250 to 300 hours, but the smaller "A" batteries may have to be renewed after 100 hours of use. The average portable's running cost thus is approximately 1½? per hour, about three times that of operating a plug-in set on house current...
Divorced. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, teary, leery cinema plug-ugly; by his second wife, Mary Arieta Gilman Beery (his first: Gloria Swanson); in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...Whittemore was spark plug of the Yearling batting attack, cracking out three bingles, two of which figured in one run rallies, first is the sixth and then again in the eighth...