Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draw a lurid and very vitriolic picture of the writer of said letter, based on the fact that often those who make a practice of building up a righteous and God-like exterior, are usually attempting to cover up an essentially dirty mind--his distortion of Nemo's girl, flask, and vacuum, into bawds, flasks, and vacuums, is enough for that--but I will be fairer to him than he has been to Nemo, and not judge him by his writings. I will only hope that he is a natural human being, as I feel certain Nemo is, and know...
...estimation of Roosevelt's naivete; the people are, in fact, damn sick and tired of these Clean Cut Young Men; Mr. James Cagney has been substituted as a somewhat bawdier idol, and even the self-conscious college rake with a girl on his arm, a flask on his hip, and a vacuum in his head is held to be preferable to young Master Purity. Roosevelt's rebuke to Lindbergh--even though it does smack somewhat of a teapot tempest--will be loudly cheered by those unfortunate men who do not look as though they worshipped Pure American Motherhood and lived...
...after an airplane crash the face of the girl her husband should have married (Sari Maritza). "I forgot that I was grown-up," says she to the patient young doctor (Nils Asther) who has been waiting until she found it out. Typical shot: Sari Maritza trying to empty a flask when she is upside down...
...sanatorium in Shelton, Conn, one evening last week Dr. Maher told 1,800 attentive physicians what he had been doing to some tubercle bacilli. Culturing them in a sterile glycerin broth, he had added some sterile litmus milk, put the flask in a cupboard at room temperature. The deadly, rod-shaped bacilli slowly disappeared, transmuted into round-shaped bacteria called cocci and diplococci. These bacteria, he explained, produce an acid which destroys their progenitors...
...trouble and was occasionally taken for a spy, but by the time he reached Mexico City his fame had preceded him: he was given the honor of opening a bullfight. Though his kind of traveling was thirsty work, Tschiffely carried no water. "For my own use I had a flask of brandy, and another filled with lemon juice mixed with a little salt. This concoction was very stimulating but tasted so bad that I was never tempted to drink much at a time...