Word: jugging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round and round the vinegar jug The monkey chased the weasel; The monkey stopped to blow...
...jug of cool Italian wine was brought to him by an aged, cheerful monk who refused payment. The bricklayer, refreshed, at peace, opened the portly Hospice Register before journeying on, inscribed his bold autograph: Benito Mussolini . . . Aug. 5, 1903. Last week an itinerant newsgatherer unearthed this autograph, sent news of it humming over the cables. Signor Mussolini's intimates, not displeased, reminded his detractors that even as a bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that...
...other day in a paper that when the word 'rubber' was mentioned, an Englishman's expression was like that of the cat caught by the empty cream jug or the empty canary cage. You will understand that the word 'rubber' does not produce that particular kind of satisfaction in my soul." He told of the ups and downs of rubber planting; told of hard times immediately following the War when "it was literally a case with many plantations of 'To be or not to be-aye, there's the rubber!'" He concluded...
...lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine...
...Edward Savage, sitting stiffly at the dining-room table. Confused because they did not greet him, he smacked Maher on the back. Still there was no greeting. The angry friend peered into the faces of Maher, Castle, Savage. They were dead. On the table before them was a jug containing wood alcohol and poisoned berries...