Word: pewterer
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...Pewter-haired, gum-champing Ed Flynn started it. Said he: ". . . No misfortune except a major military defeat could befall this country to the extent involved in the election of a Congress hostile to the President. ... It is now plain that the Republican Party is not so much interested in winning the war as ... in controlling the House of Representatives...
...spell. It was so late when they finished eating that, if he hoped to get back to Briggs by the ten o'clock deadline, movies were out of the question. So they walked slowly up Washington Street, eye-feasting in several open jewelry stores and auctions, pricing cocktail shakers, pewter beer mugs and Egyptian rings. Then, at nine-forty, they took the subway back to Cambridge...
...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...
...conflagration got out of control and was licking hungrily at the tail-feathers of one of the stuffed pelicans that haunt the curie grotto. In the nick of time Coles Phinizy '42, head comie, cantered to the rescue armed with an old pewter tankard (dated at least 1639) and avowed its contents onto the flames, which immediately went...
...subchasers, her original owner, Wilson Marshall, decided to give that same Gold Cup (supposedly worth $5,000) to the American Red Cross to be auctioned off-and the resentment that swept the country when it was discovered that the Kaiser's Cup was actually gold-plated pewter, worth about...