Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No regrets were felt over the loss of the rickety gray building with the low ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook...
In the Town Bar, the bartender stared ruefully at his customers and grumbled: "I haven't sold enough whisky since the first of the year to bother taking the corks out of the bottles. Just beer-beer and more beer." His business was off 40%. "I'm better...
The Doyles were Roman Catholics, and Arthur was sent to Britain's most famous Jesuit public school, Stonyhurst. He was imposingly robust: on one festive occasion he and three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham...
At about the same time, when Porter had been solidly established in the theater for some five years, luscious Lucius Beebe, self-made expert on the art of splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter...
In the small, shabby auditorium of Tokyo's Scholars' Building, 210 of Japan's best scientists relaxed last week with tall bottles of beer and box lunches of rice balls, cold fish and pickles. Like most Japanese, they wore cracked shoes and frayed trousers, but they had...