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...were in a first-class hotel at a gathering and I had occasion to go to the lavatory, the gentlemen's lavatory, and I was astounded to see there three young girls with three men and they were drinking out of a flask and handing it around...
...mouse when it spins?"; and "The Dinosaur's Egg" turns this technique into presumably formal fiction. The author starts several things and when within view of the prey sits down and lights a cigarette. Uncle Bliss, a big-game hunter who calmly takes a snifter out of his pocket flask at a strictly temperance dinner, goes to Africa hunting pterodactyls. He encounters something big and snaky that might as well be a pterodactyl as anything else and shoots it, whereupon it sinks to the bottom of the river. Uncle Bliss catches malaria and goes home without it to England...
...fiction of hip-flask Florida could be more faithfully supplied with the spirit and flesh of the period than is this romance of the joyous peninsula in its rum and bombo days. It is thorough work, racy reading, a story packed with bags of beauty and of darkness...
Charles G. Dawes had 65 guests at luncheon-the pages and employes of the Senate. He said to the pages: "Don't be 'hip flask' boys, and-I suppose I shouldn't say it, perhaps the chaplain should say this-don't smoke, don't swear and don't chew. Be clean; be yourself; stand against the crowd and you will amount to something." Charles G. Dawes received a note...
...enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 to $100,000 fine or both. Onlookers detected not flask, nor glass, nor scent of liquor at the banquet...