Word: lid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Willis' turn last week to answer Senator Borah's questionnaire on Prohibition. The purpose of this questionnaire, which is to be passed to each Candidate, is to force a lever of logic with which Senator Borah may be able to pry the political lid off a subject in which citizens are actually interested. It contains three questions of a political nature (party plank, law enforcement, modification by states) and a fourth question aimed directly at the Candidates' liquor views. It was upon this fourth question that Candidate Willis, a boom-booming champion of the Anti-Saloon...
...great sledge. The sledge was covered with a pall of silver; it had silver handles. The silver gleamed dully. Above, on the alabaster casket shone much gold- a dado, four seals and hasps. Explorer Carter's men inched up the lid, moved it most carefully to the floor. The box was open for the first time since TutankhAmen's priests made their incantations over it, since they set his soul on the path towards Amenti, the Region of the West where Osiris waited with his 42 judges to approve its virtue and permit its passage to the Egyptian...
...infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning that chemists would be arrested if they gave analyses of alcoholic beverages, aroused even more adverse comet. As for the individual officers, the World says that they have rummaged the statirtes for excuses for the commission of outrages...
...death but a metal cap Like the lid on a soup tureen...
Toward midnight four workmen were screwing down the coffin lid. "Wait! Stay a moment!" called a voice out of the gloom. The workmen started, then stepped back respectfully as the Governor-General and the President of the Irish Free State entered. The coffin lid was raised, and more candles were brought...