Word: draught
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...will be proper to send white flowers to the funeral of one who quite his life at the tender age of three score and ton. Roger Bacon in the thirteenth century announced to his rather hostile contempories that all that was necessary to outlive one's friends was a draught of essence of reindeer. Spaniards in the sixteenth century tramped their way to fever and death in the swamps to Florida all for a few bubbles in the fountain of youth. Ladies of the present with a more practical turn of mind submit to the beautifying tortures of the face...
Finch's stout is good no doubt, From either wood or bottle. Their bitter ale can never fail To please the thirsty throttle. Their rum and wine are very fine; Their gin will make you frisky. But never draught was ever Quaffed To equal Finch's Whiskey...
Arrived at Assen the troops rushed for their foamy "marching draught." All too soon this cooling ration disappeared. Unappeased, the men called for more beer. Their officers, frugal, meticulous, refused to sanction further beerbibbing...
This time these theatrical rum-runners are going to smuggle into our dry dramaturgic desert some strong stuff from Russia and give us for once a draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most...
...Father and Son tell how they found relief from liver disorders by taking Black-Draught...