Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves by the abuses consequent on their forcing the sale of beer. Of the saloon's denizens only the barkeep emerges unscathed from Author Ade's hands. "He was at least as human and humane as his contemporaries and much more temperate in his habits. Let his epitaph be kindly...
...world must drink, and it is becoming apparent that it must, the Vagabond would have them drink a rarer vintage than that washed up on Portsmouth beach, the solitary epitaph of a rum runner. Mead was the drink of the gods upon Olympus long years ago; if it is good enough for them it is good enough for Harvard. In the far off days when Romans were like brothers Mead ran like water. Pliny has passed on to us the doubtful praise that "it had all the bad qualities of wine and none of the good"; but the Vagabond...
...offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively antics cause him to regain health and good spirits so thoroughly that he suggests a line for his own epitaph: "Died in his infancy...
Admiral Byrd last week ordered an epitaph for his terrier Igloo, with whom he flew over both poles and who is now buried at Dedham, Mass.: "Igloo?He Was More Than A Friend...
...consul at Nice, Robertson Honey, escorted the Swedish nurse when she brought fresh linen to make up Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger's bed in jail. In Paris the lawyer who handled Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger's last divorce coined an impromptu epitaph: "He always found married life extremely difficult. But he found it impossible to live alone...