Word: flagon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Yacht Club, which holds the homely $500 flagon won by America 82 years ago, received news of the Sopwith challenge with its usual studied calm. Officials would say nothing until the formal challenge should arrive by mail. Then the procedure would be appointment of a cup committee, the issuance of invitations to individual members or syndicates of members to build defense candidates. Of the three yachts engaged in the defense against Shamrock V in 1930 only Weetamoe is in commission. She was bought by Banker Frederick Henry Prince of Boston and refitted according to the new rules...
...Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident he had prognosticated to a skeptical people that the day would arrive when they would no longer laugh at his whimsicalities but praise his foresight; and the day had come. Armakeli's compatriots sang ubilantly...
...Calculus" would be a much more fanciful subject than "Transmission of Heat," lectures being what they are, and there would be no temptation to introduce Bundling, and then "Let's Turn Out the Lights and Go to Sleep." But once in his retreat, the Vagabond reached again for the flagon, and discovered that, best of all, he could project himself into the thoughts of his tormentor, the Editor. Here is revenge, real revenge...
...stranger. Even more reluctantly does he embrace the task of wresting precious tickets from the hands of those whose God-given work it would seem to be to keep them hidden in the filling cases on Harvard Street. Then there is the bitter disappointment when he reaches for the flagon, and finds only the flask...
Last night the Vagabond lay out on the lawn alone with his flagon beside him scanning the stars. Above the Dipper spilled out the dew and so bright it was that the little superfluous star on the handle could easily be seen. Lord Grey of Falladon, learned that he was going blind when the eyes which five years before "had seen the lights going out all over Europe" could not descry this single star. In the west over the shoulders of the mountain Jupiter glinted in a setting of dark blue velvet, and the milky way beat a track across...