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Word: hipflask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absent from any spectacle; Thomas D. Taggart, potent Indiana Democrat; Herbert Bayard Swope, who edits the New York World; Joseph Pulitzer, who bears a famed name and owns part of the World; Admiral Gary T. Grayson; and W. O. Mays, who as Federal Prohibition Administrator for Kentucky, said: "Hipflask violators will be arrested. Derby Day parties must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Near Louisville | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...muttering in his bedroom; he was talking straight out for publication, "If I were president of this university, and I am sure I should last about three months, I would eliminate the loafers if it took out 1,500. I would also eliminate the 'boozers,' the 'hipflask toters' and the fellows who think it's smart to violate the laws. When I got through there might not be more than 5,000 students here, but we might again have the atmosphere, earnestness and hard work which the university is said once to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Wisconsin- Feb. 22, 1926 | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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