Word: firework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonists in their practical manner had an excellent device for speeding along courtship and saving firework at the same time. The damsel and box suitor, when the winter winds blew off simply popped into bed, fully clothed lowered a small wooden fence between them and pulled the covers high ground their necks. This was called "bunding" and it is this quaint practice that provides the central theme for "The Pursuit of Happiness," playing at the Metropolitan theatre this week...
...think that most of the cheap so-called blends are not only undrinkable slop but also contain quasi-poisons that give the after effects a peculiarly harrowing quality; many have found that on the morning after even the mildest imbibing their heads were apparently filled with large and elaborate firework displays...
...climax the rally a great firework display was set off at one end of the commons in glittering blue letters it flung forth the cry "Beat Yale" and 2000 throats took up the cry "Beat Yale." --The Dartmouth...