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Word: striper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army & Navy Nines | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...with a 34 year old chassis and a 106 aptitude rating and finds the Army rough sledding for the first weeks. He finally gets into the swing, imagines he is knifing the cook, the sergeant, and the company clerk during a bayonet drill and ends up cursing the three-striper himself and getting away with...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: "IT'S A CINCH, PRIVATE FINCH," IS CREATION OF EX-ADVOCATE MAN | 3/25/1943 | See Source »

Aroused at what semed like imminent death for "The Mole," a hairy comic striper currently tunnelling his way through the Dick Tracy series, the Adams Hose "Mole First Committee" dispatched the following telegram yesterday to Chester Gould, creator of the strip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Must Dick Tracy Kill Mole? Gold Coasters Send Protest | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

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