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Word: swag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest and most successful private medical plans. As such, it is offered as a working-model argument against state medicine. Last week C.P.S. was shocked to its bone marrow: 200 or more doctors had been gypping the plan by charging it for services they had never rendered. The swag was estimated at $1,000,000 to $1,200,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Chisel | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning up until another mobster (Lloyd Nolan) hijacks both his swag and his old ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...fact that one Sidney M. Levy, a fast-talking $75-a-week textile salesman had just been thrown into the pokey for swindling several victims out of $45,000 in a phony nylon deal. Sidney had been ungentlemanly enough to say that he had blown most of the swag on Rosemary, and Rosemary was afraid this was leading to a ghastly, ghastly misunderstanding. She considered Levy a "creep," she cried in tones of outraged virtue, and also a "congenital idiot." Her relations with him, she added firmly, had been only platonic. Then Rosemary poured out the classic story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: I Never Knew ... | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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