Word: corking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nihon-Jin-Kwai, the 46-year-old club of the Japanese gentlemen of London, rustled with Oriental mirth, when a member returned from Cork, with a tale...
Evangelist William Ashley Sunday last week preached a "shortstop" sermon against Governor Smith's presidential candidacy. Theme: "Crooks, cork screwers, bootleggers, whisky politicians; they shall not pass-even to the White House." Place: Ocean Grove, N. J., Methodist seashore resort...
...your issue of August 20 you relate the failure of an attempt at suicide, the attempter failing to drown because he wore a "cork...
TIME, perpetuating an ancient myth, can help explode it. Artificial limbs are made of willow-metal; never of cork. I know. I've had to buy one every five years for half a century...
What had Dom Pérignon done, visitors wondered, to deserve such gratitude? Villagers explained. Dom Pérignon had been the abbey's cellar keeper. It was he who discovered that bottles could be stoppered with cork. And, far more important, he had invented the bubbling wine known as champagne. For a long time, of course, people thought he had been helped by the Evil One. But every Frenchman knows now that champagne may be drunk by the most devout. Ah, yes, Dom Pérignon was a very great man indeed...