Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Got a telephone call from Galloway Calhoun, imperial potentate of the Shrine, who was stranded in Hawaii by Harry Bridges' waterfront strike, and wanted Shriner Truman to do something. Secretary Matt Connelly told him there was nothing the President could do.
Amid the gossipy birthday crowds strolling last week across the imperial gardens at Tokyo, a frayed, rustic-looking little man stopped, doffed his hat and made a low bow toward the palace. In the middle of this gesture, once compulsory but now archaic, the little man suddenly became aware that...
Frankie was pinched trying to organize the pea pickers of the Imperial Valley. Frankie was pinched for unlawful assembly in Los Angeles. He was in jail the night before Reggie bore him a baby, Timothy. His ostensible employment was that of an ice man. With that other, ever-loyal functionary...
* Last month; Hiram Walker got a similar injunction against Sloppy Joe's liquor store in Denver for selling Imperial whisky at $3.99-$4.50 a quart (fair-trade price: $4.59).
The jug still holds (see cut) a full Imperial pint.