Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In picking their sponsors, Government contractors had a crush on the wives of Washington bigwigs. Mrs. James F. Byrnes broke two bottles and received a $349.90 gold brooch and a $1,820.12 tray. Mrs. Claude Pepper's record of six christenings was second only to the eight splashed up...
Ingrid Bergman loves Cary Grant, while Cary loves Ingrid but won't or can't admit in for 90 minutes. Ingrid, the not too innocent daughter of a convincted American traitor decides to become a U. S. agent in Rio because she goes for the Grant version of the strong...
Soon the situation was well out of hand. Mobs fought with firemen and police (ten cops were injured), hurled bottles and bricks through windows, smashed the ticket booth of Scollay Square's Old Howard burlesque house, turned on a fire hose in a downtown movie theater. Women of all...
This done, the Republicans checked out of the Kansan Hotel. Next morning cleaning women removed a near truckload of empty whiskey bottles from bedrooms; bellhops rested after a tough day & night of toting sparkling water and ice; and Topeka bootleggers happily totaled up the receipts.
To the Trove. In Minneapolis, workmen began tearing up a pavement, stopped in amazement: they had uncovered six bottles of pre-Prohibition brandy.