Word: drips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should have turned aside to make me the target for rancid legends is quite mystifying, inasmuch as I am a private citizen, holding no office and caring for none. I am not thin skinned but even the most calloused individual would resent the untruths and false insinuations that drip from p. 13 of your Oct. 30 issue...
...heat. Twenty minutes to six already. Our time is two hours behind Eastern Standard. Eggs mixed, celery chopped, beef shredded, ready for cooking. Light oil lamp, set table, put on bread, preserves, butter, milk, catsup, sugar and cream. Put two tablespoons coffee (think that's right) in drip pot and put two cups water on to boil. Nearly six. Egg mixture put over now boiling water and stirred. Done in four minutes. Five after six and we are eating, I with an eye on the clock. Twenty-six after and my dishes are at the sink...
...Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy, you would not ask how they could do it." At a mass meeting last week, Harlem Negroes hailed Leibowitz as "a new Moses...
...speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with mucous membranes well seasoned, take 'old fashioned whiskey cocktails. One hundred thousand dollars were spent in decorating the inside of a small dining room...
...herself in the tenor's rooms for the night. So childlike and pure is she that he puts her to bed with a huge teddy bear and goes to sleep on the sofa. He surprises her and probably himself the next morning by proposing marriage. Since she has fallen drip-pingly in love with him the only obstacle to be disposed of is the fiance who arrives hotfoot from jail. They send him out to wait in a taxi and forget all about...