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Word: slinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply, confident Barney Samuel, who is not wasting much energy campaigning, cried: "Mud-slinger." The response of voters was much livelier. Attendance at Dilworth street rallies zoomed from 50 to 3,000 (for one rally last week, a crowd of 7,500 jammed the busy intersection of Chestnut and Broad). Dilworth himself was not the only attraction. At rallies he was often preceded by Hegeman's string band, one of Philadelphia's famed Mummers'Parade organizations. His family went campaigning with him-and turned out to be just as belligerent as he. Once his wife, Ann, smacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Street-Corner Crusade | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...burning fervor is all it takes to make a feared and respected slinger of the pen; the Friendly Editors will supply in concentrated lessons what you lack in experience. In Harvard's only course in journalistic style, all comers will learn how to be gentle, how to be sentimental, how to boost subtly a pet idea, and, last but not least, how to don the silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERVICE NEWS COMPETITIONS TO OPEN THIS EVENING AT 7:30 | 11/9/1943 | See Source »

Pole vault--Won by Harwood (E); second, Rogerson (H); third, Slinger-land (H). Height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUNNERS TOP EXETER 71 TO 55 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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