Word: likker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even though he is continually showering the air with germs when he coughs." The miners, who are 90% native-born, live in the most abysmal ignorance of the nature of their disease. One tried to check his silicosis by giving up chewing tobacco. Another said: "It's the likker that gits 'em down. When that alkeehol gits down into the lungs along with the dust that's what eats...
...before their time. Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which...
...rallies and barbecues the candidates have poured abuse on each other, whipped up passions and prejudices, kept the State in a frenzy of excitement. Farmers wearing red suspenders, the Talmadge trademark, turned out by hundreds for the Governor's barbecues of free pork, lamb, beef, chicken and "corn likker." Aside from the major matter of personalities, the chief issue was the New Deal, of which young Senator Russell is a stanch supporter...
...some man who was supposed to have had an acute attack of indigestion or cerebral hemorrhage or heart failure, and the chances are the only thing that was the matter with him was that he had swallowed some improperly cooked oysters. . . . now I will give my recipe for pot likker...