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Word: puglies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late in the fourth quarter the Elephants decided that they would give the Bellboys some of their own medicine and tried a short, flat pass. But Lowell's fullback, Pug Piper, intercepted the heave and romped down the field to tally. The final point was rung up on a line plunge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 10/27/1937 | See Source »

...Marjorie Bowen -Appleton-Century ($5). This able biography of the great satirist paints a vivid picture of the London background of Hogarth's work, tells the careers of the subjects of his portraits, describes his fight for the first copyright law (1735), explains how it happened that the pug-nosed little Cockney genius was so detested by academic critics that his achievements went unrecognized until a century after his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Retreat | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Minnesota has been picked by experts to win the national championship again this year. Minnesota football addicts, however, are already calling attention to prospects for 1937, because they feel the present team is not up to average. It lacks an iron man, like famed Herbert Joesting or Pug Lund, in the backfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Minnesota Miracle | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...willed flend running amuck at sea, where reason is powerless to restrain him. In spite of his round, boyish face, bestial cruelty disguised as lawful discipline seems to be Laughton's forte. This was demonstrated in "Les Miserables" as well as in the present picture. Those thick lips and pug nose of his are becoming the cinematic symbol of brutality...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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