Word: kegs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later, called to task for his gubernatorial criticism, he made them again with these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every jog and break every bottle and roll every beer keg and every champagne barrel into the Atlantic Ocean...
...wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half a barrel of wheat and then pick up two bushels of wheat or corn and balance them on his shoulders. Another trick was to lift a 200-pound keg of nails without letting the keg touch your body. I could do that easily but I never realized then it was helping me train for the Big Leagues...
Many a citizen who read his newspaper last Sunday morning was reminded of a charred keg down in his cellar, which he had filled weeks ago with nothing more intoxicating than grape juice, cane sugar, pure water. He was reminded also that he had done nothing since about the mixture, but that soon it would be fermented, turned to glow-giving wine...
...federal grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...
There was more perturbation in the Manhattan offices of the Guaranty Trust Co. last spring when two $50,000 kegs of gold fell into the Hudson River than there was exaltation last week when Chairman Sabin and President Potter announced that the bank's resources were $1,052,211,198. The keg accident was unusual...