Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco News (Scripps-Howard), Cartoonist Douglas Rodger used the biggest political news of the week to make a bum out of the G. O. Pachyderm (see cut), captioned it "Memories...
Harvard, long the seat of COMMUNIST teaching, has its finger in this new pie. It allegedly humorous magazine has devised an insidious process of MANUFACTURING Orientals by feeding them bum rum. Experimenting on themselves, the periodical's staff are now in Stillman, YELLOW AS BANANAS...
Immortal No. 14, whose career, like most baseballers', has been a poignant illustration of the old baseball adage-a hero in the third inning may look like a bum in the seventh-was last week swapping tales with local barflies in the Empire Hotel at Springfield, Ill., when he was informed of his fortunate rescue from obscurity. One of the most effective right-handed pitchers of all time, Grover Cleveland ("Old Pete") Alexander, now 50, could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night...
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...England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...