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Word: bumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lama of the Kum Bum Monastery vanished into thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Man | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...married set in the lower brackets of the middle class, whose husbands worked hard at minor jobs that kept their wives supplied with candy, cinemas and cheap cars, they lived in loud but comparatively harmless amity. The more frolicsome hailed each other, farewelled and responded with such remarks as "Bum joor, sports!", "Olive oil!", "Yeppy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unmagnificent | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...your clothes and stay awhile." Spencer Tracy is the cocky tuna fisherman whom she sticks to even though Nick Appopolis, the fish-cannery owner, assaults her virtue with a matrimonial offer and a neckpiece made of well-bleached cat-fur. When her fisherman leaves her to go on the bum, she steals a roll of bills for him from Nick. Sentenced for this, she gets out of prison through a drainpipe, is reunited with her tuna fisherman, only to give herself up to the law when he promises to quit his cocky ways, work again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...then it was only spasmodic until Arthur Cumnock, of the Class of '91, got George Adams and George Stewart to start a coaching system at Harvard in 1890. Harvard won that year by 12 to 6. in spite of the fact that Yale boasted of the great Hefileilnger and Bum McClung (later Treasurer of the United States) on its team. Cumnock also appointed Dr. Bill Conant as ozar of the physical side of his team. and Jim Lathrop became the trainer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Coaches, Headguards, Penalties or Injuries in Football Before Eighties | 11/16/1935 | See Source »

...abusive diary lying around; he told guests they had obviously come just for the free meal; he took his vacations by himself; he called her extravagant and spent money on fishing tackle. Alfred Ross's countercharge: She had called him "a coward, pansy, bald-headed nincompoop, sap, thief, bum, crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1935 | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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