Word: plunger
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...Sophomores were demonstrating the lethal weapon to a couple of girls in their room when one of them lifted the plunger, and released the lachrymose vapor. Amid great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and many tears, the victims groped for windows and means of egress...
Left. By Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed Wall Street plunger who committed suicide in 1940: debts of $468,057, assets...
When Army goes into left formation, the wingback, Hill, does the running, and he also can perform this play. And for fullback Blaik has another triple threat in the person of Hatch, a tailback last year, who is none the less a very adequate plunger. The fourth member of the backfield is Jarrell, who in build and proficiency somewhat resembles George Helden at the blocking post...
Peters is a fine captain, however. A better-than-average punter and passer, he runs hard and surprisingly fast whenever he gets any sort of blocking, which he doesn't get with any frequency. Bud Rose at fullback is a hard plunger. Tom Irwin (now injured) is a pretty good blocking back, and Bob Perina, a Junior, has possibilities as a ball-carrier, but he needs blocking...
...immense dining rooms, stood on Bellevue Avenue, along with the palaces of the Whitneys, the Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...