Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helen Walker) that some of her cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead ones. He wants merely to preserve himself at a perpetual 35 by getting periodical surgical instalments of the glands of other men, who customarily die as a result of the transaction...
Millions of Americans, who had almost forgotten Al Smith the politician, remembered him as a symbol of a wonderful era-the years of the never-ending bull market, of the hip flask, of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Dempsey fights. Al Smith's hoarse and genial East Side voice, his chewed cigar, his violent pajamas and his rasping expletive, "Baloney!" belonged to the fabulous '20s as much as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'. He was against the Volstead Act; and in the '20s the U.S. almost elected him its President...
...this scientific affront to womanhood. In a small watch glass, the two researchers put a human egg, cut from a woman's ovary. Next they put in some live male sperm. They let the mixture stand for an hour at room temperature, then placed it in an incubating flask with a culture of human blood serum. After 40 hours, they had a two-celled organism, the apparent beginnings of a human being...
...Leaving a cemetery where he had just buried a friend, Barrymore was seated in a car with a crotchety old stranger who objected when John took a nip from a flask. "If you have no respect for the surroundings," chided the oldster, "you might have some for me-I am 97 years old." Jack gazed out at the graveyard, murmured: "There doesn't seem to be much point in your leaving the place...
...SPANGLE: "Oh, the sedan belongs to Mrs. Flask. . . . Why, the Flasks have three (cars). Their son has to get to and from school ... 50 miles...