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...taking. Their constant buyers have always been among the poorer middle classes everywhere, who cringe from a doctor's bill, but can afford lOc for 12 pills, or 25c for 40, or 50c for 90. Still, Sir Joseph, on a visit to the U. S. in 1912, could brag: "My pills are taken by dukes and lords, who conceal the fact from their family doctors. I have positive evidence of this. Medical men take them on the quiet...
Were Dr. Walter E. Dandy of Baltimore willing to brag (which he is not), this week he would tell of a brain operation he performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital two weeks ago on 18-year-old Oscar Flicker, freshman of the College of the City of New York and son of Samuel Flicker, realtor...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
Something to Brag About preaches that dull husbands may catch a high polish at any moment. This particular husband comes out of his coma long enough to hold up a neighbor for $1,500. The same day, his wife decided she should leave him for a slimmer, sager...
Provocative of silly, harmful brag...