Word: pint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Their elders found a spokesman in George Jones, a London dockworker, who said: "Y'know, I'd like to meet some of these Americans some day after this. I'd like to buy 'em a pint, I would...
...been one of them. He knew the angles. Said he: "The Devil will come and bring you another bottle of smoke. You'll go over to Second Avenue and sell a pint of blood for five bucks and get drunk again before the day is over . . . Come and get God's help...
Within the hour, a boyish 28-year-old with cropped blondish hair and a ready grin wheeled into the vacant spot near A. O. Rickenbacker's hardware store. He hopped out of the Ford, opened the trailer door, set the coffee pot on the butane stove in the pint-sized kitchen, spread farm literature across his "parlor" table, and rigged a microphone out front. Hugo Sims, youngest man in the U.S. House of Representatives, last week was "at home" to his constituents of Cameron (pop. 624), as he would be in every one of the 150 cities, towns...
...This pint-sized merry-making is reduced even further for freshmen and sophomores, who aren't mature enough to join a club. For them there is nothing but a gymnasium dance and an intown movie. Last week underclassmen queued up for tickets to a "Prince-Tiger" dance: the office opened at 2 p.m.; the only people who got tickets had been in line since before noon...
...explained that the 1200 pint goal was a goal to be aimed at and not to be achieved...