Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little dancing bubbles wherewith the Liquid Carbonic Co. tickles the palates of a vast public of U. S. soda-drinkers, there arises something besides carbon dioxide gas. Sparkling behind these bubbles is a personality, the personality of handsome, dark-haired Bertha Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband...
...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...
...squad of 88 to nose out and prevent diversion of industrial alcohol for synthetic whiskies and gins; 3) 88 other sleuths to work with the American Railway Association in matching wits with shippers of beer who now, it seems, can baffle the shrewdest freight-masters by disguising their bubblesome liquid as lumber, cement, merchandise...
...square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor. Drawn up against walls patterned less purely with tiles of ochre and green and ruby, naked attendants in breech clouts wait to knead and oil the bathers in the hot rooms, steam rooms, medicated rooms, therapeutic rooms beyond...
...harassed constable phoned that one Herr Horoz, schoolmaster, had begun what he announced as a "six-day speech" in the famed Lustgarten; was pausing only occasionally for a sip of liquid nourishment...