Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lynch me if I'm wrong," Hu Flung declared, but it shouldn't be a bum Setear to say Harvard 10 Yale...
...their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...
...Louis, on the steps of New York's City Hall, balled a brawny fist in the cause of the American Social Hygiene Association's October antivenereal drive for $300,000, bumped off the Bum of the Month (VD in effigy...
...opening scene was pure George Bellows-a seedy Bowery-type bar in the year 1912, littered with slumped and sleeping drunken bums.* Soaks of all descriptions-a Harvard man, a British infantry captain, a Boer War correspondent, a Negro gambler, an unbadged police lieutenant, a disillusioned anarchist-they had been reduced by rotgut to creatures of one baggy shape. What kept them hanging by a claw to life was the kindness of the drunken-bum saloonkeeper (finely played by Dudley Digges), and their pipe dreams, their mumbling that tomorrow would turn up a winning card or bring forth a better...
...playgrounds of the U.S. zone, some 10,000 German boys have been forgetting how to goosestep while they mastered a new sport-baseball. Egged on by G.I.s, opposing nines have knocked homers and stolen bases while frenzied fans bawled out the umpire with shouts of: "Hornochs! Faulenzer! Dieb!" (Blockhead! Bum! Crook...