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...jigger of cocktail rum (on which President Vincent is trying to get a 50% reduction of U. S. duty), a half teaspoonful of Angostura bitters and chopped ice to be spun rapidly with a limewood swizzle stick until the ice has melted and (hen drunk before the ''bead" on the liquor sub-sides...
With the exception of the very popular Frappier, none of these are regularly patronized by Yale students. The students' favorite, the Taft Hotel shop, rated 97. Other choices: Emil Kossack, York St. (over the Jigger Shop), 93; Louis Miller, High St., 96. Sheffield Scientific School men go to Joseph DiFranco, Wall St.. 96; Gus Klein, Grove St. (near a beer joint...
...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...
...What reminded Lord Beaverbrook of "a noxious little pest called the jigger...