Word: pints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every day for 30 years she drank a pint and a half. Last week she died. Dr. D. A. Urquhart pronounced her "virtually pickled alive." Her drink was commercial vinegar; her name was Miss May Robsley of Shrewsbury, England; her weight was 38 pounds...
...liver into slices half an inch thick, and sprinkle each slice with the mixture of bread crumbs, mushrooms and seasonings; put in a casserole, pour over it one-half pint of cold water or good soup stock, and bake in a slow oven for three quarters of an hour...
Case No. 1: "When three of my sons were at Death's door and our physician prescribed a pint of medicinal whiskey, I did what my father would do: I broke the law; I went out and obtained the liquor...
...drawing-room, Mr. Healy began to throw things and the others joined him. The bottles were their favorite ammunition, but when the last pint had crashed into "The Old Man's" (by Rubens) forehead, its dregs and fragments joining the unholy litter on the rug, they picked up vases, jars, bookends, ash trays. They caved in the forehead of the youngest Lommelini (by Van Dyck), raked the mother's face with chair legs, sent a bottle-neck through the Lommelini daughter's cheek. One of them yanked open the vitals of a $17,000; built-in parlor...
...Wright Law, Mr. Gilliom last week wrote to Governor Jackson, reminded him that during Mrs. Jackson's recent attack of pneumonia, a doctor had prescribed whiskey for her. Mr. Gil-liom recalled that the Governor had consulted him as to the "immediate and lawful acquisition of a pint of whiskey," had been informed that whiskey could not be legally obtained...