Word: elixir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily, 4,500,000 Sunday). But some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search of the missing ingredient...
Weight events and the distance runs provided the necessary elixir for Freshman track team victory for the first time Saturday by a margin of 70 to 56 against highly-touted Exeter...
After I paid the ransom, I propelled Sedgwick to a rude stool by the fireplace and forced a few drops of Dr. Seagram's elixir through his clenched teeth. He gargled hysterically, hiccoughed once, and whispered plaintively, "Christmas shopping...
...show deals with a minor sort of intrigue surrounding a ball-team in the 1890's before and after the sale of a magic elixir by a well-meaning huckster...
This year's play, from the collective pens of "Speak For Yourself's" writing team of Craig Gilbert '47, William Scuder '48, and Courtney Crandall '46, finds its theme in the effects a supposedly magic elixir can have on the lives and loves of various citizens of Fairhaven, home of a ball team known as the Mudhens...