Word: cask
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...making of one of Her Majesty's ministers in Britain is something akin to turning out a good Scotch whisky. It takes considerable mellowing in the cask of Commons, a goodly bit of gentle sloshing about in the lower recesses of the ship of state and a year or two in the political cellar of some influential member of Her Majesty's government...
...grad recalled in a letter to the CRIMSON "the good old days, when...a cask containing a quantiy of good cheer from a neighboring distillery was set up in the middle of the Yard...
...neither a fool with a frozen smile, Nor a sad old toad in a cask of bile; He can dance with a shoe nail in his heel, And never a sign of his pain reveal...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, with Bela Lugosi...
...sensitive taste buds, were enjoying a barrel of wine. Although both pronounced the liquor excellent, one cousin noticed a slight taste of leather, while the other objected to a taste of iron. The other imbibers, less discerning than Sancho's kinsmen, ridiculed the two. On emptying the cask, however, the cousins were proved correct, for in the bottom of the cask was an iron key tied with a leather thong...