Word: demijohn
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Last fortnight, just as the Marlin was to sail from St. Lucia, a woman screamed that someone had stolen her demijohn. When police went aboard the Marlin, they uncovered hams, butter, soap, cloth, shoes and other contraband. Goods and traffickers were hustled off to the hoosegow. The women pleaded Martinique's hunger, and the police relented. Late in the day they let the Marlin sail, with a warning that next time things would go harder...
...with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...
...vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian neighbor, Charles Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made...
...Robert's horse was originally called Demijohn, or John. A Negro groom, leading him from his stable into the sunlight, was so delighted with the sheen of his coat that he cried: "Doggone, hoss-you ain't no plain John! You'se John the Baptist." John the Baptist's half-sister is Salome...
Last fortnight Hemingway, a few Cubans and the usual wicker demijohn of wine went swordfishing. In July and August the big marlins come down from...