Word: lid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised the lid...
placed the lid...
...lid...
...take the lid...
...late as the 19th Century. The body of Admiral Nelson, who was killed aboard the Victory off Cape Trafalgar, was undressed except for a shirt and jammed into a large, upright cask of brandy. One black and stormy night, the marine guarding the cask noted in terror that its lid was slowly rising. He hurriedly summoned the ship's surgeon, who spoke knowingly of a disengagement of air. Some of the brandy was drawn off from the cask's lower bunghole and it was refilled from the top. The legend that sailors tapped the cask and drank...