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Amateur Standing. In Chattanooga, Moonshiner William Garden was placed on two years' probation after he dolefully told the court that he burned his first batch, spilled kerosene in his second, did so badly the third time that he asked arresting revenuers: "How in the world is mash supposed to look when it's ready...
Stranger in the House. In Pittsburgh, after police raided her home and found two 10-gallon stills, 40 gallons of mash, 250 pounds of sugar, 2½ gallons of moonshine, Mrs. Letha Jackson explained to the judge: "Somebody must have left all that there...
...Porter." Explained a contemporary satirist: "A learned doctor has analyzed the anti-popery porter [and found it produces] a disposition to bowels particularly lax, an inclination to pravity and to singing praises of the Lord through the nose." The trouble was, he said, that Guinness had its porter makers "mash up stereotype Protestant Bibles and Methodist hymn books . . . thus impregnating, in the act of fermentation, the volatile parts of the porter with the pure ethereal essence of heresy...
...Good Old Days are definitely over. Time was when a Harvard football team would think nothing of running up a pretty healthy score to mash some upstart West Point outfit. But now that Army has taken us 54 to 14 and 49 to 0, anyone can see it's time to draw in our hors little bit. We just seem to take a different view of football from most other people these days...
...earth and left to grow by themselves. Many Irishmen were happy enough to restrict their diet to these easily grown roots and to spend their free time lying on hillsides thinking dark thoughts on the British and nipping poteen, which, as any schoolboy knows, is made from a potato mash. By the end of the 19th Century, said Dr. Salaman, the average Irishman was eating 14 Ibs. of spuds a day, his wife...