Word: pug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Dillinger of the newspictures. His sandy hair had been dyed black. He had grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through...
They came with their shillelaghs-florid-faced Thomas Francis McMahon swinging the threat of a cotton textile strike and pug-nosed Michael Francis Tighe brandishing what looked dangerously like a steel strike. If either or both landed a good stiff wallop with their clubs. General Johnson's job-making program with NRA would be sent sprawling in the dust of more labor troubles...
...Jefferson Davis Park. Unofficially, the "South's greatest party" had started night before. A host of otherwise solid citizens had dressed up in their dinner jackets and had taken their wives, sweethearts and daughters to a prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe had finished with each other, the celebrants moved en masse to the Hotel Peabody, a copy of which graces every...
...Sallow, pug-nosed, swaggering Welker Cochran, San Francisco billiardist: 400-to-139, with a high run of 217, his play-off match in the international 18.2 balk line billiards tournament, against skinny Erich Hagenlacher of Germany; in Chicago...
...Arbor, a crowd of 65.000 watched Michigan, unbeaten and untied since 1931, outplayed by Minnesota, whose Pug Lund gained more ground than the whole Michigan backfield put together but failed to get within scoring range until five minutes before the game ended. Then, on fourth down at Michigan's 24-yd. line, Minnesota's Bill Bevan missed the place-kick that would have broken...