Word: pint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep golf appointment with Cinemen Adolph Zukor (Par-amount-Famous-Lasky) and Nicholas Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and Cinemactor Thomas Meighan, when his Rolls-Royce collided with a car driven by a Miss Dorothy Kane, overturned, killed the Fox chauffeur, injured Cineman Fox badly. A blood transfusion (one pint) was administered...
...willing to exploit my son in the newspapers . . . will yet see him resist the temptations . . . and be what his mother prayed he would be and what I expect him to be - a fine and useful man to his day and generation." Said Junior Heflin: "I drank about a pint of grain alcohol mixed with two parts of ginger ale at a party with some boys and girls in an apartment . . . that's all that was wrong with me. . . . I told [the officer] I had taken a veronal tablet. . . . I used the same excuse when I had been drinking...
...tradition Philip ("Red") Mohan comes not from the Lower East but the Upper West Side. Since "Red" Mohan flew a rattling "Jenny" plane from Juarez, a fortnight ago, to the rebel forces in Chihuahua with 400 Ibs. of nitroglycerine in the cockpit, a cigaret between his lips, and a pint of tequila (cactus wine) on his hip, he has been a hero to the rebels. Black-eyed wenches smile at him in the plaza of an evening, but Amorous "Red" Mohan is a very Tristram for constancy...
...Harmony Grove, Calif., one Henry Van Steenberger last week sat, on a bet, before ten gallons of wine. He quaffed, guzzled, bibbed, choked down more, sipped, strained, swallowed hard, until only a half-pint remained after three nights and two days of drinking "at one sitting." Then Bibber Van Steenberger lost his bet. He fell over dead...
...commercial blood brokers out of business, the New York Academy of Medicine, County Medical Society and Health Department recently gave their joint blessing to an Association for the Transfusion of Blood in Aid of Suffering. This organization is semi-commercial, quasi eleemosynary. It charges the standard $50 a pint for blood, gives its selected sellers $45, keeps $5 for commission. It is under reliable medical control...