Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days before Christmas, at Burbank's Union Air Terminal, workers will trundle out the plane, done up in cellophane and red ribbons. They will be disappointed if Lord Lothian is not there to see their gift christened The Spirit of Lockheed-Vega with two bottles of champagne (one...
By 1820 the moralists were licked, the novel triumphant. Then it became transfigured with Uplift-Mesmerism, Mormonism, Bloomerism, above all, Teetotalism and Abolitionism. As villain, the boozer rivaled the seducer, now plying his wenches with animal magnetism and transcendentalism, instead of sighs and potions. Among temperance novelists was Walt Whitman...
According to the stories told, before his abdication Carol had built a royal hunting lodge costing 150,000,000 lei ($780,000), and stables costing 400,000,000 lei ($2,080,000). In these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom...
> "Dr." Landis played Hamlet with a comic Dutch gravedigger who recited in dialect and unearthed tin cans and beer bottles along with Yorick's skull.
We are not all bitter over Harvard's recent outburst. We simply look upon it as a clever piece of publicity and a method whereby the Old Grads will be ready for the coming change of policy at that Boston school. Of course this impending change of policy has not...