Word: cask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many of the retinue discreetly to their cabins, but Their Majesties proved fine sailors. In the teeth of the gale, they watched the battle cruiser Repulse pick up a cask of mail dropped from the Empress and turn about for home, the crew singing as a parting salute, a gale-borne toast, Here's Health Unto His Majesty...
...Reader Stockman is right. Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, The Oblong Box, Thou Art the Man, first appeared in Godey's Lady's Book...
...welshing, holders of Government gold-clause bonds were to be offered an immediate chance to exchange their securities for 1) otherwise identical non-gold-clause bonds, or 2) cash at par. This was a plain invitation by the Government to the public: If you are afraid of inflation, cask your bonds now and use the money to hoard commodities or anything else you think will protect yon from inflation. Little danger did the Treasury run of the public's demanding $10,000,000,000. Any bondholder who wants cash can do far better by selling his Federal securities...
...stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
...built, and in its basement a genuine Altdeutscher Rathskeller. In the old days, Wisconsin beer-drinkers frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust...