Word: plungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Live and Learn. Presented by Michael Kallesser-who wrote One Man's Woman, Trial Marriage, Marriage on Approval- Live and Learn is a thin little wisp of domestic dramaturgy. If Frederick Manning ("a vagabond and a plunger") had not come to dine with Harold ("who has a pagan love for movement and color") and Mabel Fuller, along with Annette Roberts ("a gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick...
Black Bill bobbed smartly, threw a left hook, a straight right, flew off the ropes like a whirligig. Midget Wolgast danced round him in circles from left to right, his left hook working like the plunger of a sewing machine, his long hair flying. Every three or four rounds of the 15 that kept the crowd roaring, the Midget showed a new trick: breaking a wild flurry he would stand stock still, holding his left hand high until Black Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes...