Word: flagon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such oratorical omelets, composed of Southern corn, overblown poetical allusions, rough waggery and incoherent rambling have seldom been presented in the halls of Congress since the days when John Randolph of Roanoke used to stride into the House, whip in hand, followed by a Negro boy with a flagon of porter, to administer a tongue-lashing to Henry Clay...
...Agudath Kimah (1920-23), Anti-Wine Society (1837-43), Aureus Ramus (1825), Lemonade Club (1844-58), Chitty Pleading Club (1874-75), Deipnophatoi (1815), Eranetic Club (1829), Free Wool Club (1889-91), Friendly Fire Society (1833), Hard Cyder Club (1755), Mixolydian Quintette Club (1875-76), Monks of the Flagon (1848-56), De Schwatgenide Brudorschaft (1885-86), Society to Discourage Perpetration of Crimes (1793), Star Chamber (1873-74), West End Crowd (1864). Ydel Cruth (1860), Wicht Club...
...column, This New York, reported: "The greatest wartime grief of the town's exquisites is not the curtailment of moderate essentials of living like food and transport, but the complete disappearance from circulation of Floris's mouthwash, formerly imported from England! . . . There isn't a flagon of this choosy smell left on any chemist's shelf in town...