Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until the interior of the rumen and the reticulum-two of the four bovine stomach cavities-was disclosed to view. When the edges of the hole in his steer had healed, plump, white-thatched Dr. Schalk, professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University, stoppered it with a wooden plug...
...frantic cheers of Austrians for the ruler of Germany. Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against Hitler...
Majesty, the royal and imperial grandmother asked amiably: "Whom have I the honor of receiving?" Announced Lilybet: "Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug!" This caused not a flicker upon the countenance of Her Majesty, but after the game was over she asked, "How did you happen to think of such queer names?" "Oh, we didn't think of them," explained Lilybet. "While we were dressing up to play, Uncle David came in. We told him we needed some new names and he suggested 'Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug...
...March 15. This has left Gene Ahern nothing to do but play and admire the art collection in his Hollywood home until June i, expiration date of his N. E. A. contract. Only clue to Judge Puffle's possible appearance was the 30-foot silhouette of a pinguid, plug-hatted figure, not unlike Major Hoople in outline, which loomed above the orchestra and the heads of 20 blonde hostesses and Official Greeters James J. Braddock & Fifi D'Orsay at King Features' Waldorf party. Selling Judge Puffle sight unseen on the basis of Major Hoople's fame...
...head in foolish disappointment, explained he had been buying sweepstakes tickets for many years but still hoped to win eventually. Two weeks later, in a reel about Manhattan socialites parading on Easter, John Q. Dohp appeared again, this time as an incongruous and loutish rustic, wobbling along in a plug hat much too small...