Word: corking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drug counters of Harvard Square pharmacies have been besieged by flocks of Ibises and Presidents bawling for relief, we do not know, but that some purge of humors has been employed, is, at first glance, obvious. In the old days, on make-up nights on Mount Auburn Street, cork helmits were a necessity much as they were in any British tropical outpost, that is, to keep those present from going completely under when their back teeth were floating. Under the new regime, however, it appears that at least the invaluable Bob Lampoon keeps semi-sober and acts in the joint...
Therefore Mr. Ford caused deep disappointment in Europe last week, when he declared that he will not set foot upon the Continent itself but will spend a month in England, Scotland and Ireland, visiting his factories at London, Glasgow and Cork. Pinioned by reporters, he admitted that his plants now produce daily 1700 automobiles and 1½ airplanes. Said he, "This year will be the greatest the automotive industry has ever known...
...conducts wholly from memory, with light, cork-tipped batons imported from Italy. He rarely uses the same stick twice. He often hums while conducting. He will have no guests at his rehearsals...
...officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk-a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
...scuffed out of her dock, a great flower of flame was growing through her decks, sprouting in the passageways, flourishing suddenly out of the port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail of the after deck collapsed and then...