Word: plugging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wiggins at an appointed hour, grinned and shot him through the temple with his 48 calibre pistol. Then he had turned to Marvin Duncan, another captured guard, and said: "Prepare yourself. You're next." They let Shea go because he had been "a pretty good old plug." Daniels had offered the guards' lives as the price of free exit for himself and his four followers in the revolt which began at noon. Daniels had also demanded in repeated messages and shouted parleys that Warden Francis Eugene Crawford supply them with automobiles to drive away in. "Go to hell...
...American Tobacco Co. Forced to segregate many of its properties in 1911 under the anti-trust law, American Tobacco still holds a dominant position in the trade, is said to handle one-third each of the cigaret and smoking tobacco business, and one-fourth of the plug business. Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most of its 1929 advertising budget of $12,300,000 was spent. The campaign...
Blue Boar 1.45 Lucky Strike Plug...
Actually Secretary Stimson's goat, the one attributed to him, which followed him from the Philippines, is in the White House stable. He, "Master William Hamilton Bones," in the care of Private John Hale, U. S. A., is reported to chew the blackest plug tobacco, which accounts for the brownness of his whiskers, to eat the horse's hay, to sit up on his haunches and "speak" in goatish gutturals...
Ramifications of Radio Corp. in entertainment are best shown by noting what Radio Corp. can (and doubtless will) do to "plug" (exploit) its entertainers. Example: Rudy Vallee, singer and orchestra leader, will soon be seen and heard in a Radio talkie. He can make Radio-Victor records of the featured songs. He can broadcast them over National Broadcasting Co.'s chain of 53 stations (N. B. C. is 50% owned by Radio Corp.). He can appear at RKO theatres. Cinema, radio, phonograph, vaudeville-Radio Corp. is very much in them...