Word: nutmeg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Again the railroads and towns people have been interviewed, and for another five years the inter-collegiate races take place at New London. The thrifty dwellers in the "nutmeg" town know on which side their bread is buttered, for in truth it is buttered on both sides. Whichever crew wins, pocket-books are opened, money is scattered broadcast, and revelry rules the town, at laast, once in the year. Before the races there are to be found both Harvard and Yale peanuts and sandwiches but afterwards only one kind remains in stock, and that kind is sure to be well...
...easily evolved In drinking a health to a Roman lady one cup was taken for each letter in her name, - a performance often attended with disasterous consequences. Giving a toast is synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom of putting toast, nutmeg and sugar into ale. To drink supernaculum was an ancient custom in England of emptying the cup or glass and then pouring the remaining drop or two upon the finger nail; for what purpose, is not known. "To buzza one," was a term used to a person who hesitated to empty...
President Carter of Williams, who is Connecticut born, illustrates his immigration to Massachusetts as the nutmeg coming to the greater (grater...