Word: mash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is really a very well developed art in burlesque," said the girlesque queen. "And as for vulgarity, I have seen musical comedies on Broadway that are more vulgar than any show I've ever played in." Asked whether she received many mash notes from members of the audience at her shows, the birly-cue actress said. "Of course I do. Every girl in the 'honkytonk' gets lots of them. And you know, it's a funny thing, but a good number of theme come from college fellows. I guess other men must know better. I never answer these notes...
...formless mash of newspaper words finally distilled itself last week into headlines like this...
...with percentages of alcohol &whiskey stated on the label), imitations be labeled imitations (with ingredients stated).* Medicinal whiskey, said Dr. Wynne, must be the stimulant which the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the Food & Drugs Act of 1906 specify as "an alcoholic liquid obtained by the distillation of a fermented mash of wholly or partly malted cereal grains, containing not less than 47% and not more than 53% by volume of alcohol at 15.56° Centigrade. It must have been stored in charred wooden containers for a period of not less than four years." The labeling, ordered Dr. Wynne, would have...
Said Warden Alson: "A barrel of corn mash, charged with alcohol, is left overnight near a sand bar or a sluice where wild ducks are known to feed. Early the next morning the hunters return. There are the ducks, either sleeping off a hangover or staggering around making silly quacking sounds. The alcohol leaves the ducks incapable of flying or swimming, and they are caught easily by hand. Some die of acute alcoholism...
...Weirton Steel Co., big National Steel subsidiary, bought 15,000 freight cars and 400 locomotives from Baltimore & Ohio R. R. to mash up for scrap. Each freight car will yield 15 tons of steel, each locomotive 90 tons. Price of scrap...