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...faculty has its orders, to take it easy on the poor lads. This mill goes on for weeks; every Friday the plunger squirts a package of little demons into 950 unsuspecting arms. And then guys start to faint, and instructors make with mercy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's An Order, Instructor; Handle With Velvet Gloves | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

...sure-fire scene describes a latrine orderly's dream, in which a fairy, using a plumber's plunger as a wand, summons Uncle Tom, Simon Legree and others from the privy. Sample gag: says a sniffing sergeant to a private, "Have you taken a bath lately?" Says the private, "Why, is one missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: As Broad As It's Long | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...When, in 1928, the meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Is Written | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...Wolverines are three deep at the fullback spot, with Bob Wiese, a six foot two, 200 pound line plunger first in line for the spot that all-American "Bullet" Bob Westfall held down last season...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: WOLVERINES TO LOOSE FULL FURY | 11/6/1942 | See Source »

Aside from his running mate, fullback Tom O'Leary, who is a topnotch plunger, the Royal Blue has no outstanding backs and the line is green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '46 STUDDED JAYVEES FACE ANDOVER TODAY | 10/17/1942 | See Source »

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