Word: jigger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squalid little Near Eastern states know that Mr. Crane was their friend as American Commissioner on Mandates in Turkey (1919); and he was a most popular U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). Throughout the U. S. almost any dainty faucet, bathroom jigger or giant sewer valve is apt to bear the impress CRANE. Therefore it was matter of interest and concern to millions when, last week, the automobile of Charles Richard Crane was savagely fired upon by Arabian bandits, 60 miles south of Basra, Irak...
...kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville's most intimate affairs, the keeper of the Jigger Shop, knew anything, he too kept silent. The Lawrence. undergraduate newspaper, printed a big headline: "DR. ABBOTT IS LAWRENCEVILLE." Joseph Espy, student school president, and Gordon Smith, vice president, performed the unprecedented act of appearing before the trustees in Manhattan. What they said they did not repeat. The school behaved...
...gold standard reminds me of a noxious little pest called the jigger which infests the coffee-growing areas of the West Indies. It enters the human body through any abrasion in the foot. It circulates with the blood and finally comes to the lower part of the stomach. There it multiplies and feeds voraciously on whatever its victim eats. In order to satisfy its demands the patient himself eats enormously of all kinds of cereals until his stomach becomes hideously distended. There is only one cure and that is to drink eucalyptus, which kills the jigger...
...What reminded Lord Beaverbrook of "a noxious little pest called the jigger...
...course that sprawls over some moors near Garden City, L. I., began the fourth annual Public Links Tournament. When the diggers, the hookers and the slicers had been cleared away, two stout golfers stood forth to do battle in the finals : stubby William Serrick of Manhattan, who uses a jigger for his long putts; Raymond McAuliffe-tall, redheaded, lately a caddy on the links at Buffalo, who stares fiercely at his little ball between puffs of a long black cigar...