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Word: rug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis rug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

Accordingly they rushed to the address and were met by an indignant landlady who announced that she had found the animal a week ago Sunday teasing her cat in the back yard. In the mean time he had torn up a $25 pocketbook, a linoleum rug, and had slept in the puffed rice. The board she said would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kinney, Scratching and Screaching, Returns to Apthorp Sick of Linoleum Rugs and East Cambridge Landlady | 10/9/1923 | See Source »

Henry Ford: "An interviewer asked me about my presidential ambitions. Said I: ' I wouldn't step as far as from here to that rug to become King of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...short time ago a college man missed an overcoat from an auto which he had left in front of the dormitory. On the same day a rug was taken. Both these losses were reported to the watchman, but for a week the case remained a mystery. Finally someone getting out of bed at six in the morning happened to look out of the window, and saw a boy crawling from under the building. Upon investigation the missing rug and overcoat were found stored away beneath the steps. Further investigation disclosed the fact that the boy had a home in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROMANCE AND PENNIES | 12/2/1922 | See Source »

...ball was kicked to same and he catched it and run with it. The usual procedure in football as I have come to understand it is for a defensive full back to wait for a kick to start comeing and then lay down on a well-greased linoleum rug and begin playing cross-eyed parchesi with the man he graduated from high school. But this time this Buell guy catched the kick and run back with it towards the opponents' ghoul and the old blue Eli declared it was foul tactics but the referee said willy nilly and what could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS-EYED PARCHESI ON LINOLEUM RUGS NO GAME FOR AN OLD MAN | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

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