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Word: pug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...pug nose, pigeon toes, thick lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 1, 1925 | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

Down the gangplank walked Simon Y. Patino, Bolivian Minister to Spain, a man worth ten times ten million good U. S. dollars. This short, broad man with a pug-dog face was accompanied by two sons, Rene and Onlino, two secretaries, two valets, one manager, one physician and 50 pieces of luggage. To the immigration men he handed a diplomatic passport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rich | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...short, broad man with a pug-dog face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jan. 19, 1925 | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...Hell,' said Jones. Then he cornered Arootoo! . . ." Such statements, several to the page, enlighten this novel by Robert W. Service, loud versifier. The narrative concerns one Jerry Delane, whose career as a respectable member of society is cut short by an unjust imprisonment for safecracking. He becomes a pug, a hobo, a beachcomber, breaks noses in Frisco, hearts in Papeete. All these things Mr. Service has himself experienced; he also was once a reporter-doubtless a good one. In this book he has written a thrilling news-story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Formalist | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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