Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told of the old days in England that one of the three officers in every community-the other two were the high bailiff and 'he low bailiff-was the ale tester. Posterity has cast a blot on the 'scutcheon of that worthy by corrupting his honored name into "ale taster." But testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation. The ale tester was supposed to array himself in leathern breeches and proceed to examine the village supply of home brew as produced. This he did by pouring a small quantity of the precious fluid upon...
...then that extraordinarily clever little people the Japanese who invented the lantern that bears their name, how well they epitomized the fragility of human happiness. Be careful to get the pretty paper things inside before it rains for their colored loveliness cannot stand the rigors of our sharp New England climate. But after all they have lighted the queens of the May it only for a night. And wasn't it Ted Lewis who first said "You shall be King. King...
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...eggs, as soon as laid, were penciled with the date and the name of the mother, and were then distributed among his friends, or sparingly eaten at his own meals. To eat a chicken itself was a kind of cannibalism from which his whole nature shrank. "I do not eat what I love," he said, rejecting the bowl of chicken broth I pressed upon him in his last sickness...
...grown, they developed into a little five-inch burnished cock, which shone like a jewel or a bird of paradise, and a more sober but exquisite hen. These two, Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. Each knew its name, and would run from the flock when its white-haired keeper called, and, sitting upon his hand or shoulder, would show queer signs of affection, not hesitating even to crow...