Word: bracer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ick.es, long a fanatic on turning off unnecessary electric lights in the Interior Department, few days ago spied on scores of clerks skulking into the Department cafeteria for a quick bracer (coffee or tea), next day ordered the cafeteria closed after lunch...
...with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young at 37. Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink sociably. He doesn't smoke. Girls have no part in his life, or he successfully conceals the fact. Of his secretary, pretty, red-headed Peggy Dowd with sparkling blue eyes, he says. "God bless her, she's a wonder...
...Ballyhoo, smart publishers are beginning to see that anything (within reason) goes. The Bedroom Companion, or A Cold Night's Entertainment: Being A CURE for Man's Neuroses, A SOP to His FRUSTRATIONS, A Nightcap of Forbidden Ballads, Discerning PICTURES, Scurrilous Essays, in fine A Steaming Bracer for THE FORGOTTEN MALE sounded like a bold bid for man's attention. Readers who were won by its ballyhoo found it only a mildly entertaining, conventionally improper, publisher's stunt...
...73rd birthday Steelman Charles Michael Schwab, working at his office on lower Broadway, refused either to see newshawks or to issue his annual bracer. That night at dinner he gave in, told a reporter: "Conditions are improving...