Lexicographical Neighbors of Spugs
Literary usage of Spugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America as I Saw it: Or America Revisited by Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1913)
"It was to assist and protect these classes that the "spugs" first banded together.
The good effect of this Society was already proved in the first year of ..."
2. Fear and Conventionality by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1914)
"IX PRESENTS F)ERHAPS the most iconoclastic organization • formed in our day has
been a New York society called the "spugs," "The Society for the Prevention ..."
3. Fear and Conventionality by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1914)
"IX PRESENTS PERHAPS the most iconoclastic organization formed in our day has been
a New York society called the "spugs," "The Society for the Prevention of ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"spugs and Christmas. Outlook. 105: 779. D. 13, '13. Suggestion for Christmas.
Outlook. 105: 735- 6. D. 6, '13. Touching Christmas celebration. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1816)
"These " Poem!" con»ist of Five Odes, dedicated, I1. To tl e Muses; 2. To Miss
Sarah Fo»ler ; 3, To the Dryads; 4. To Discretion; i. To Romance i—uvo .spugs ..."
6. Girl's Clubs, Their Organization and Management: A Manual for Workers by Helen Josephine Ferris (1918)
"The spugs attack the collective Christmas giving which is current, customary and,
therefore, almost compulsory, and which results in unfair taxation. ..."
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