Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...gadget, posh, to do the dirty, to scrounge, to -wangle') and by Americanisms (lay off, scram). Most of it, however, is still the schoolboys' own, often unintelligible to outsiders. A Bootham boy, for example, says: "Just had a juice-meeting with My Lord for tuzhering a bug." Translation: "I've just been reprimanded by the Headmaster for breaking an electric-light bulb." Some other outlandish schoolboy expressions: belly-go-round (a belt), Medes and Persians (the practice of jumping on a boy in bed), flish (to cane...
...Married Adventure. Osa Leighty was a small-town Kansas girl, the spunky, snub-nosed daughter of a brakeman on the Santa Fe. At 16 she met a lanky young candid-camera bug named Martin Johnson, from the neighboring town of Independence. Lately famed as crew member on Jack London's cruise of the Snark, he was part owner of two nickelodeons-Snark No. 1 and No. 2. In darkened Snark No. 1 he abruptly proposed marriage. A few months later Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson started a vaudeville lecture tour, saved enough to head for the South Sea cannibal islands...
...Bug-eyed politicos, bag-eyed experts conked out cold; the U. S. was thrilled and a little frightened. A lot of people decided to take a closer look at Tom Dewey, just in case. The ranks of all other candidates closed up tighter to stop Mr. Dewey...
...spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave $100,000 for Curley. For Curley was a caterpillar, discovered by a boy named Stinky, which danced whenever it heard Yes, Sir, That's My Baby...
What little Jack Flinchum saw ahead of him was even more exciting: two days before he was presented with five pounds of lead weights (tied with a festive blue ribbon) to symbolize his metamorphosis from a bug rider to a full-fledged jockey, he was signed up by rich Sportsman Herbert Woolf (at a reputed salary of $20,000 a year plus 10% of winning purses). In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee Flinchum will probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby winner). His following hoped he would have better luck in the Derby...