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As a pollywog you went through pure hell during initiation.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2012

Pollywog Truman cheerfully donned a baker's cap, saw to it that others in his entourage conformed to the prescribed pollywog costume of trousers, loud shirts and ties worn backward.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Chief pollywog was Secretary Stephen Early, the Press's sole contact with the President.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next day, before breakfast coffee had well settled in pollywog bellies, a full-whiskered Neptunus Rex arrived on the fantail.

From Time Magazine Archive

I took him in this net, when he Was but a pollywog.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney