Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...information which Mr. Knopf sells is done up in a book form and is called The Bon Viant's Companion, or How to Mix Drinks. It is the work of the late Professor Jerry Thomas, onetime bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel, Manhattan, and the Planters' House, St. Louis. Professor Thomas (whose parents wanted him to be a preacher) first published How to Mix Drinks in 1862. It quickly went through six large printings; Professor Thomas became a world-figure; it was said that President Grant, having quaffed the Professor's BLUE BLAZER after playing croquet, gave him a cigar...
...moving part of the night, but a mother will forget her child and water will run uphill before a Scotsman will be unable to recognize that form and face. I went on one knee to her and she extended her pretty hands. I called her my liege...
When it came to perfume bottles, Artist Wilson produced a starkly simple cylindrical form with silver cone stopper, developed in blue and crystal. Modernistic perfume bottles are legion...
...Aimee Semple McPherson with the Four Square Gospellers. Theirs have been as much a profession of new business as a profession of new faiths. All of them, as soon as wealth came in sight had their schismatics, men and women who broke away from the prospering religious institution to form buccaneering organizations of their own. Judaism has had its breakaways; and Christianity, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Mormonism. Mrs. Stetson was Christian Science's divergent...
Army's two famous tackles form the bulwark of its line. Captain "Bud" Sprague is playing his fourth year of West Point football, and he never fails to be mentioned prominently on the all teams. Bud weighs 220 pounds and is usually the first man down the field under punts. He also kicks off for the team and his toe accounts for most of the points-after-touchdown. Perry, the other tackle, is a 214-pound giant who is seldom boxed in and who holds up his side of the line well. The hardest job imaginable is convincing a cadet...