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...state over all the affairs of the ward." Young poets and admirers came daily to his bedside, listened rapturously while the Master, his hospital nightcap jauntily askew, recited his poems aloud. Then they tiptoed out, after "carefully depositing under the inverted chamber pot a bottle of brandy, or a flask of absinthe, some cigars or tobacco...
...your article "Making Cigarettes Safe" [April 22]: Has Researcher Wynder tried ethyl alcohol (possibly in the form of bourbon or Scotch) for extracting the natural waxes from the tobacco leaf? One could have a smoke and a drink all in one and eliminate the need for the hip flask...
...Necessity," he said as he reached for his gin flask, "is a matter of social poition and for that matter so is point of view...
Nevertheless, undergraduates have greater reliance upon the hip flask become more cautious of late, placing and the small, pocket sized bottle than upon the old fashioned cider jug filled with milk punch or the like...
...chocolate between meals), but Dumas' eructations were so little lessened that he returned to his favorite, bouillabaisse. Dumas cooked this dish himself and liked to down six helpings of it at a sitting. A doctor who partook of it once spooned some of the juice into his pocket flask, explaining he could use it to scorch off warts...