Word: noggin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Machiavelli has become little more than an adjective signifying ruthless scheming duplicity. The present biography makes it quite clear that a man is behind the adjective, a true Florentine who slung mud and cobble stones in street-fights along the Arno, swapped bawdy yarns over a noggin of wine, curried favor with whatever political power there happened...
...thickish gruel, more or less refined, Poured in a bony noggin called the head...