Word: bung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical instruments out of bottles, tin cans, old bones and nails. For ambition-maddened readers it even goes a step further, telling how to make up a melody, "How to play the piano in no lessons." Suggester Spaeth even suggests how to make conversation about great composers. Sample conversational bung starters...
...Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy paw. For a week before last week's fight he smoked a dozen big black cheroots a day, drank two or three beers after workouts, did road work nights until his wife came down from Orange and saw to it that he got some sober...
...bung in this barrel of trouble is not the attitude of the Faculty, whose good nature tends to conquer their large and righteous anger at being paged like Information Clerks. What's the matter is that if all the red tape in the world were laid end to end University Hall would need half. So unbelievable is the complication of the study card system that Dean Phelps has to give students from the first week in December until the second in February to do the paper work of choosing four courses. Instead of one sharp pain the process...
...hired as their counsel Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille-brandt who knew every wrinkle of the Prohibition Law from her eight-year service as Assistant Attorney General. Last year Fruit Industries, on Mrs. Wille-brandt's advice, brought forth a liquid grape concentrate called Vine-Glo ("Just Pull the Bung") for urban vintners (TIME, Nov. 24). A client is supplied with a keg of nonalcoholic concentrate which Vine-Glo agents put down in his cellar. They dilute it, tend it for 60 days. By then it becomes wine of about 15% alcoholic content. Prohibition Director Woodcock explained again & again that...
...Vine-Glo" is obviously intended to turn into wine. But the method of turning it (simply remove the bung) is not mentioned on billboards or in the newspapers. At no place in Fruit Industries' advertising does the word "wine" appear. Also, while the advertising says, "There is only one way to get it," and directs prospective purchasers to some 200 druggists and 100 grocers in Milwaukee (agents who do not carry the kegs, simply take orders), the advertising does not describe the servicing and bottling performed by the grapemen themselves when the wine has matured...