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Word: pug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temperature was a chilly 46° when the Tigers and Cubs squared off for their big tea party last week. What followed was enough to give any big-league manager chills & fever. No exceptions were Chicago's banjo-strumming Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm and Detroit's pug-nosed Irishman, Steve O'Neill. And what went for them went for their wives: plump, chestnut-haired Lillian Lyle Grimm and dark, buxom Mary Boland O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TNT & Trumps | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Emperor summoned his kinsman, pug-chinned Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, 57, to form a new Government. The appointment was doubly notable: it was made without the customary consultation between throne and elder statesmen; it was the first time ever that a member of the royal house had become Premier of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Task and Taskmaster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Page one: Bill Saunders beats up an ex-pugilist bouncer in a pub. Page two: the ex-pug is dead and Bill is chased through the streets of London. Page three: Bill breaks into a room to hide, finds there a pretty salesgirl named Jane, and spends the night with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thriller | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

When at last Miss McGuire transferred her affections to Claudia, the audience at a Washington tryout had an electrifying experience. They saw a pretty, pug-nosed little woman articulate, with something of the luminous otherworldliness of Maude Adams and with some resourceful, intelligent acting-a Golden Treasury of U.S. schoolgirlishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Army's youngest general officers. His chief of staff: tough, pug-faced Air Commodore George R. Beamish, C.B.E., onetime boxing and golf champion of the R.A.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Proof of Independence | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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