Word: eggnog
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...similar circumstances Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone drank eggnog; Disraeli, brandy & soda; and a grinning Churchill announced that he was not sure whether his amber-colored liquid was cider or ginger ale (he prefers brandy to either of them...
...Looked forward to toasting the nation in eggnog, and to reading Dickens' Christmas Carol to a family group which would include five grandchildren, Daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, Daughter-in-law Ethel du Pont Roosevelt...
Christmas, 1942, was the time when trains were jammed and trees were scarce, when turkey was high and the eggnog bowl low. It was a time when, despite the opulence of gifts in many homes, the people sang with fervor, in a peculiar popular ditty, that they just wanted to keep what they had. It was a time when a young Navy wife in Seattle said: "Last Christmas I worried if my husband would come home from the office sober enough to trim the tree. This year I wonder if he'll come home from the Solomons-anytime...
...would all gather under one roof, and grandfather would say grace before the dinner began. Too soon after dinner, there would be snacks of rich brown fruit cake, baked weeks before and set aside to ripen. In the South children would shoot off firecrackers and their elders would drink eggnog...
...yellow paper cover, drilled for a kitchen nail, is the same as in 1793. Unchanged are its astronomical and tide charts, its page of "Poetry, Anecdotes and Pleasantries." It has articles on molasses silage, fertilizer, a recipe for eggnog pie. Under "December hath 31 days," a reader may still glean such nuggets from the recent past as "Sitting Bull killed in fight between Soldiers and Indians...