Word: pug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about a saxophone-playing, airplane-flying, life-loving "pug...
Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...
...spectacles far down on his nose, pug-faced Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson sat before the Senate Defense Investigating Committee. The Under Secretary was reporting what the War Department had done in national defense during the last twelve months-the score of the first period in a deadly serious game...
...Shot is an Irish pug...
There is no heaven for broken-down prize fighters. But after the last bell has clanged for his last fight, many a boxer has turned barkeep. Joe Madden, onetime lightweight, is probably the only ex-pug who can trace his clicking cash register to his ability to write rather than fight. One night last week 500 of Madden's loyal customers jammed his Manhattan-cafe. Tennist Alice Marble sang, Sportswriter Richards Vidmer helped wait on table. They rang up $1,500 in his cash register-not for Joe Madden but for New York City's needy kids...