Word: jiggers
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...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...
...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...