Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ In Des Moines, Iowa, the Welcome Wagon Service-which gives newcomers to the city sample products from local merchants and manufacturers-tried but hastily abandoned a subsidiary service: the delivery of six bottles of beer to newcomers, brides and mothers of newborn babies.
He clearly remembered that last big game in the fall of '42. The Eli's had come out with a close, exciting win, and the Bowl, decked out with the usual blondes, bottles, and bulldogs seemed to lack nothing: the football was good, the bands and old grads played their...
The owner of the Varsity Liquor Store in the Square, Frank Purcell, disagreed with his colleagues on the prevailing undergraduate scotch propensity. "Harvard men will drink anything alcoholic," he remarked, hastily explaining that the turpentine on the floor would be used for the walls. He expected malt liquor to be...
As Playwright Loos's Cinderellative, Actress Hayes is on an acting spree. The portrayer of such moral monuments as Queen Victoria and Harriet Beecher Stowe lets fly with a tipsy tango, bawls through the mike a specially written Rodgers & Hammerstein ditty, cuts up under a table, does a swan...
At a friend's house in Greenwich Village she met William Bass, a cheerful and rotund New Yorker who is now her business adviser. Both were already married,† but they got divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest...