Word: coca-cola
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Just why king-snakes and Boston debs seemed incompatible could not be explained by Gilbert last night, but the smile on his face as he splashed round in a rum-and coca-cola seemed to show that he didn't give a damn...
...Dohr [April 11] is going to take Mr. Brown [of Johns-Manville] to task because he sold $31 book value stock at $100 when the market was $150, he might ask Mr. Woodruff of the Coca-Cola Co. why his stock is selling at $117 when it has a book value of less than 87. Or he might look into the matter of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit common which sells around $8 a share despite a book value...
William E. Kondall '40, fastest freestyler in the British Empire, and king of distance men at Harvard and in the United States, will leave Cambridge at the end of the current term to take a position with the Coca-Cola Corporation...
Most fantastic courtroom swigger is Coca-Cola's prize defense witness, Curator Perry Wilbur Fattig of Emory University's Museum. In a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled consumer who had found a drowned black widow spider in the bottom of his Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig put a live, wriggling black widow spider into his mouth, crunched and swal- owed it, sat quietly in the courtroom the rest of the session. Since chemical action of carbonated water sterilizes insect matter, Curator Fattig thinks nothing at all of downing such sodaed morsels as grasshoppers, houseflies, small toads and frogs...
...topped with a brown beret, sauntered up beside him. Because they seemed to be total strangers, the clerk was surprised when the red-faced man handed his beer over to the man with the beret, still more surprised when the red-faced man then ordered a bottle of Coca-Cola for himself and walked out with it without speaking a single word to the elderly man. The clerk might have forgotten the incident if the man with the beret had not drunk his gratuitous beer alone and walked away from the bar never again to be seen alive...