Word: thrasher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with the tufted dowager, red-eyed crosspatch, all-night thrasher, ruffled spouse, great stench, lesser stench, or double-breasted seersucker...
...THRASHER...
Most notable grunioneer was hefty, fun-loving Governor Earl Warren, vacationing with his family at Santa Monica. He became an uninhibited thrasher in the surf, risked undignified dunkings groping for grunion. But for all his delighted flopping-about he caught only two. His ten-year-old son, Bobby...
...Lois Thrasher, 32, had had seven years of reporting on the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus-Leader when she came to Chicago in 1942, just when many a big city's news room was converting from profanity to perfumery. Sent to cover a hotel murder case, she wangled a job as chambermaid, scrubbed seven bathrooms on her hands & knees, muttered: "I wouldn't do this for the man I love. I don't know why I do it for the Daily News." Last week, her scrubbing and striving rewarded by promotion, Night City Editor Thrasher was still...
Objective. In Lincolnshire, England, the Chronicle ran the following advertisement : "Owner of tractor wishes to correspond with widow who owns a modern Foster, thrasher; object matrimony; send photograph of machine." Hooping Cough. In Kingston, R.I.,the Rhode Island State basketball team prepared for its game in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where smoking is permitted, by practicing with smudge pots of stale tobacco on the sidelines...