Word: casks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...1800s, the tradition of spiked punch took firm root. Abuses of this custom, however, led to a riot in 1838, and in 1852, the punch was declared illegal. During a controversy over Class Day 35 years later, a correspondent to the CRIMSON recalled "the good old days, when ... a cask containing a quantity of good cheer from a neighboring distillery was set up in the middle of the Yard, where the weary and footsore might refresh body and soul...
...asked her master he'd give me a cask...
...common method of pickling corpses, as late as the 19th Century. The body of Admiral Nelson, who was killed aboard the Victory off Cape Trafalgar, was undressed except for a shirt and jammed into a large, upright cask of brandy. One black and stormy night, the marine guarding the cask noted in terror that its lid was slowly rising. He hurriedly summoned the ship's surgeon, who spoke knowingly of a disengagement of air. Some of the brandy was drawn off from the cask's lower bunghole and it was refilled from the top. The legend that sailors...