Word: jugging
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...rule to eat but once a day, never at night, and he had taken Lord Irwin on an empty stomach. Twice more, last week, the "friends" met. Once the Viceroy sent around to Mr. Gandhi's lodgings the most tempting gift His Excellency could imagine: a cool jug of the best goat's milk and a bunch of the most luscious hothouse grapes. Mr. Gandhi began sending telegrams to Nationalist leaders all over India saying merely: "Come to me," and they set out. The Executive Committee of the Nationalist Congress unanimously informed St. Gandhi that they would abide...
...treacherous denies of the Himalayas, turned their prayer wheels, eyed their pudgy Buddha nervously to see what the god might think of ''Sumy Side Up," Hollywood foxtrot, which a small phonograph was grinding out. Noting no sign of displeasure, the senior priest despatched his wife for a jug of home brewed marwa, thus repaid a strange "professor" from Germany for a new musical experience...
Each year at Amherst, Sabrina, a small bronze goddess, appears. She is the symbol of superiority among undergraduates and her possession is bitterly disputed between the odd and even numbered classes. To the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota football game each year goes the coveted "Little Brown Jug.'' Illinois and Ohio State wage their annual game for a turtle called "Illlibuck." Columbia sophomores customarily attempt to acquire living mementos-the Freshman class officers; their efforts in the past have resulted in public riots in Manhattan's crowded Columbus Circle, chases in fleets of taxicabs, bewildered freshmen spending...
...raise their own food. . . . Let's talk about the essential violator of Prohibition, the person who uses alcoholic beverages. . . . There are millions of him throughout the land. Whether he serves wine to his dinner guests, whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges and declare the user of alcoholic beverages the criminal and turn loose your enforcement forces against...
...Near Ruston, La. on Christmas Eve. Sheriff A. J. Thigpen and two deputies dug up a gallon jug of whiskey near the house of Farmer Philip Harris. When they entered the house, the farmer made "a suspicious move" toward his coat pocket. The sheriff shot him dead...