Word: mugging
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...there Nick....ah, there Charlie .... and a very good evening to you too Walter....sure, filet Winter Place, and a lot of ice....no, you mug, in the glasses....this certainly seems like old times....you don't know how we old grads....who threw that?....who threw, it, I ask you?....right down my shirtfront crabmeat cocktail....somebody's going to get pasted....Ohoooo, did I?....I always said those forks were too small....well, happy days....and a great pleasure I'm sure.... hey, waiter....POP....Rheims....Epernay....hmmmm, the Widow Cliquot....POP....and very nice...
Polo's Big Moment comes once every three years, when a squat silver mug with little horses and men springing out of its base stands gleaming on a table in front of the bright blue West Stand at Meadow Brook, gleaming as the emblem of victory for the International teams galloping up and down the broad stretch of turf, and as the central sparkle in one of the country's finest sporting panoramas. Custom dictates that the cup shall be at the field after one team has won one game. The score of the first game...
...spoke to President Hayes, who took him for a despatch boy . . . his remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that old mug." In Newport he has kept much to himself on his yacht Erin. Last week he was seriously ill, result of overexertion which a recent operation forbade...
...Munich the constabulary forbade serving beer at political rallies because fortnight ago a beer mug barrage broke up a Fascist-Socialist meeting there...
...tried to arouse some enthusiasm for Der Alte Kaiser fortnight ago during bourgeois Vienna's enthusiastic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the introduction of the Wienerwurst, by broadcasting the fact that Franz Josef's breakfast was almost invariably a pair of sausages, a portion of horseradish and a mug of beer. Last week they did their centenary-celebrating in Hungary, which with recurring rumors of 17-year-old Archduke Otto's enthronement in November, grows daily more Habsburg-conscious...