Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There they solemnly handed him his credentials as a Papal Legate. Next evening assembled the rest of the Cardinal's entourage?Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, his portly vicar general; Monsignor John J. Casey, his affable private secretary; and two Chamberlains of the Cape & Sword, Gerald Borden of the Manhattan milk family and Papal Marquis George MacDonald, the Cardinal's rich good friend...
...makes an awful lot of work. Barrels and barrels of the stuff have to be carried out. Broken dishes, soiled underpants, telephone books, odds of food, hundreds of wire coat hangers, and milk bottles. Speaking of bottles, enough empty booze bottles of to supply an army. And the fellers have good taste in liquor for the most part. They run to pretty good whiskies, lots of Black and White, Haig and Haig, and Jameson a little too much cheap stuff, perhaps. As far as gins goes, they get in poor stuff, but there is a goodly quantity of London...
...Milwaukee, the Wisconsin State Fair featured the nation's greatest dairy cattle show, a children's milk-drinking contest for the first 1,000 arrivals, a two-ton cheese rated 93% perfect, and an attendance which topped the 1921 high...
There was no time for such an experiment. The mill bill was dropped as inexpedient and last week Missouri's new sales tax law went into effect. Promptly the State began to provide its citizens with means of paying fractional cent levies when all banks put on sale milk bottle caps inscribed with the State seal and labeled "Missouri Retailers Sales Tax Receipt." Those with blue circles were worth one mill in taxes, those with orange circles, five mills. In theory citizens paid their sales tax in advance upon purchasing these bottle tops from the banks. In practice, they...
...best tennis player in the world, her son was certainly the ugliest, young Budge is likeable but undistinguished off a tennis court. He barely graduated from high school a year ago, spends his spare time imitating Bing Crosby or the Mills Brothers, drinks nothing stronger than milk. On the court, the quality that marks his game is the one in which he sometimes seems most lacking elsewhere -savoir-faire. The quality which he will need most if he is to develop into a Class A tennis champion is confidence, and his demeanor this summer indicates that he is rapidly acquiring...