Word: minting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boiling together for five minutes one half cupful each of water, sugar and thin shavings from the rind of one orange. Cool and strain. Add the juice of four limes or one-fourth cupful of bottled lime juice. Dilute with one pint of iced plain or charged water." Mint Julep-"Five lemons, one bunch fresh mint, one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup water, three bottles of ginger ale. Combine ingredients except ginger ale and let stand one half hour: add ginger ale and pour over ice; serve in small glasses...
...Bernice Mershon opened her mouth to emit Alan-a-Dale's part in an outdoor performance of Robin Hood. Past her gleaming teeth, into the warm, dark cavity of her throat, flew a bug. Contralto Mershon shuddered, swallowed, sang on. When she could get offstage she chewed a mint, gulped some medicine, gasped: ". . . the biggest sacrifice I ever made...
...13th floor of El Paso's First National Bank. Also in El Paso, a two-year-old U. S. girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George Van Horn Moseley went into action...
...party, may become more permanent and repeat the historical successes of national battle hymns. It has attracted thousands as though they flocked patriotically to the banner of a rising nation. Now that the Republicans are organizing their backers in what was formerly the Solid South, once the monde of mint julep devotees, this familiar air may become a rallying force for Democratic unity and protect the wets against the threatening storm of prohibition enforcement. Now, in fact, Alfred E. Smith has centered his thoughts in a hurdy-gurdy, the most suitable medium for the rhythmical strains of this party anthem...
...Methodist minister. At the age of nine he learned to set type. ... At 28, he organized a company to publish the Chicago Daily News as a penny newspaper. Pennies were not then in wide circulation in Chicago, so Publisher Stone had several barrels of them shipped from the Philadelphia mint. He also persuaded merchants to sell some of their goods at penny-stimulating prices...