Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left to the head, backed Dempsey against the ropes, pounded his face, made him shelter himself with wrapping elbows. The gong rang for the end of the first round. A gentleman who sat between Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Tex Rickard in an aisle by the ring put down his flask and stretched himself. "Tunney's got it, . . ." he said...
...left to the head, backed Dempsey against the ropes, pounded his face, made him shelter himself with wrapping elbows. The gong rang for the end of the first round. A gentleman who sat between Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Tex Rickard in an aisle by the ring put down his flask and stretched himself. "Tunney's got it, . . ." he said...
...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...