Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station, two hours distant...
...method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing...
...Manhattan, one Sandro Rodreguez accepted a drink from the hip-flask of one Ralph Martinez, a total stranger. Raising the glass to his lips, Mr. Rodreguez smelled, frowned, excused himself, returned after several minutes with a policeman, who arrested Mr. Martinez for burglary. Mr. Martinez pleaded guilty. He had stolen, not only the wine which Mr. Rodreguez had recognized instantly as his own, but several of Mr. Rodreguez's rings and bracelets, also his watch...
...secure repeal of the 0. T. A. and substitute a Government-controlled liquor rationing system. During the campaign Premier Ferguson raised a feminine hornet's nest about his ears by declaring: "Twenty-five years ago a girl would hardly speak to a man who carried a flask, but now a man without a flask is a man without a girl...
...describing happenings at the Tunney-Dempsey Fight you speak of a gentleman who stood up-sat down-and placed his flask beside him. Is that the act of a gentleman ? Could you not, with better propriety, have used the word "man" ? It is like some of our Sport writers who speak of "customers" instead of spectators at our various athletic games...