Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through its own catalogue and those of Okeh, Vocalion and Brunswick (which it controls), Columbia reissued 40 discs of oldtime hot stuff-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson's band, Singer Bessie Smith, et al. Further Columbia reissues will enable latecomers among the jazz collectors to plug gaps in their libraries...
...bull market grew bigger, he barricaded himself and a staff of 20-odd in a suite of offices in Manhattan's Squibb Building overlooking Central Park. The nameless door was guarded by a plug-ugly who kept its key locked in a little green cabinet. No one could leave while the market was open; only outgoing telephone calls were allowed. Inside, like a grand croupier, sat Jesse Livermore, a bank of telephones at his elbow, his sharp blue eyes on his private board...
...handicap of rain, and for his substantial ground gaining, Bob Peters won the honor of being the only Princeton representative. Gaining a total of ten votes, he nosed out such close contenders as Hank Mazur, who scored Army's lone touchdown against Harvard, and Erni Savignano, Brown's spark-plug...
...Curwen, Bill Drucker, Show McCutcheon, Sanday Houston, Brad Patterson, Pete Robinson, and Frank German are the standent second-year men trying to help plug the gap left by the departure of Rick Cutler, Jim Curwen, George Dana, Ed Hewitt, and Jack Waldron...
Through the streets of Boston last fortnight clip-clopped a horse ridden by a Negro wearing a ballet costume and a red wig. The plug, advertising the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (see p. 38), was the bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...