Word: jiggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they sing Rule, Britannia in Moscow? Not quite. But they are no longer being really beastly to the British. Russia's serpentine propaganda currently presents the U.S. as the total villain, while Britain is rapidly becoming the lesser of two evildoers. The maneuver, as transparent as a jigger of vodka, is simply designed to split Britain from...
...Laugh. There were other matters to preoccupy the delegates. Correspondents reported the sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...
...filling department 528 feet; time required to reach Bisque sagger filling department at the determined walking rate of 250 or 275 feet per minute, depending on whether the worker enters from the South or North gate 1.92 minutes; time to grease arms 30 seconds; time to take clay off jigger machine one minute...
Billy Rose, jigger-sized impresario of jumbo-sized shows which provide him with a jeroboam-sized bankroll, peeled off $29,500 for silver banqueting and tea services at a Manhattan auction...
Murvyn Vye, "Oklahoma" alumnus, playing the villainous Jigger Craigin, stands alone from a cast of over 50 as the one realistic and well done character. From insults, "If thar's one thing uh can't stand . . . it's a common woman," to passionate lovemaking, "I'd swim through a sea o' beer for you . . . wit' me mout closed," Vye turns in the outstanding job of the entire performance...