Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time whether he really did have any blood, Vag was interrupted by another lady who called, "Number 56? Please follow me." He was led to a desk where a nurse took his temperature and pulse, then swabbed his finger with alcohol. Producing a lethal little instrument resembling a fountain pen, she placed it on his finger and released the catch. Vag gave a little yelp as a pinpoint suddenly pierced his skin, and the nurse squeezed out a little blood onto a plate. "Thank you," she said, "and now would you go over there to drink some orange juice...
Breakfast, for those of the Bellboy population who took it, was a somewhat nightmarish meal yesterday morning, when the total outlay of 650 spoons was found missing from the tables. Some men stirred with knives, ("While there's knife, there's hope," said the Boston Traveler), some stirred with fountain pens, some didn't stir...
That the flame of patriotism, unless carefully hedged, bursts into a roaring, uncontrollable fire, has been driven home to us on several occasions. At the modest soda fountain where we recently had our afternoon tea our request for a lump of sugar was countered by the aggressive inquiry whether we didn't know there...
Most of the restaurant and fountain owners in the Square are having difficulty-these days keeping all three of that deflectable trio of sugar, spice and everything nice together and available for their customers because of the current sugar shortage...
MURDER WITH YOUR MALTED-Jerome Barry-Crime Club ($2). An outbreak of food and soda poisoning in a Manhattan drugstore drives the young owners almost frantic until a police inspector sets a trap that catches the killer. Soda-fountain argot and wisecracking Broadway dialogue add zest to the well-tangled plot...