Word: canteens
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Another product made from maleic acid is Succinic Acid, which occurs naturally in amber. A compound of succinic acid,, succinyl-chlorimide, has been found to be a thoroughgoing purifier of water. A six-milligram speck of succinyl-chlorimide, reported Dr. Downs, disinfects a canteen of water in a few minutes...
...Spaniard Jose Perdriga found Cuba rather puzzling. He had a job in a U. S.-owned mine and did it satisfactorily, though his simple tastes would have attracted him to farming. All he wanted for the immediate future was Maria, daughter of fat Marco Sanclemente, who ran the company canteen. Marco was a politico in a small way and tried to shape his future son-in-law into one. But again, though Jose made a success that surprised himself in his only venture among the firecrackers of Cuban politics, he did not like it, slipped off at the first opportunity...
...practical prisoners broke into the canteen and guzzled the warders' whiskey and beer. Somebody knocked the spectacles off the 64-year-old Chaplain's nose. Another convict handed them back. "You'll need these, sir," said he, "you'd best be getting home...
...story of the Red Flag being sung, it was only sung by three men in the canteen who had taken too much drink...
...follow the dictates of their companions, there is only one woman director in Hollywood (Dorothy Arzner) and no important woman executive. The Mad Parade is the first picture with an entirely feminine cast. Men are constantly discussed by the women members (Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Irene Rich) of a canteen in the War, but no male actor appears in the picture with the possible exception of a large rat at whom the heroine (Evelyn Brent) throws a hand grenade...