Word: liverish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winds whined and whistled for the Hoover administration. Consideration of the farm relief bill drew to a close. The Senate's Republican Leader, Senator Watson of Indiana, appeared on the floor in mourning. "When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile...
...Public School Boy's principle of good sportsmanship. The taunt of one utterly lacking the first instinct of a gentleman, "never to hurt the feelings of another, be it individual or nation." I ask you and your readers to laugh at that letter, as the outpouring of a liverish and bitterly disagreeable person. . . . GILBERT TYNDALE...
Whether it is smoked or eaten, the effects of opium vary according to the mental disposition of the consumers. To the bright, happy man all manner of pleasing scenes are presented; an ambitious man will fancy himself a gloried Napoleon; a man will liverish fancy man will himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot...