Word: drams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women stress that they would rather have a dram of a good perfume than a gallon of not-so-good brands. This general rule holds true except for cologne, which a lot of women like...
...attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left the house...
...Down the Dram. Britain laid her hands on an additional $240,000,000. She "bought" $120,000,000 from the International Monetary Fund, i.e., exchanged pounds for dollars. The rest she got by selling gold to the U.S. As Britain has now drawn $180,000,000 from the Fund, she can draw only around $151,000,000 more. Her total gold and dollar reserves are now down to some $2,500,000,000. Despite new cuts in imports, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said that the sterling area's gold and dollars are still being drained...
...March production will be the first double bill the HDC has presented. "Waiting For Lefty" is a social dram of labor movement, and will be shown as a contrast to "The Ping-Pong Players," a light Saroyan love-story acted while the two characters play ping-pong on stage...
...dram: a man just doesn't give a dram...