Word: pints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great joy in seeing and hearing the sound thump on the pants of the retreating actor, to see all the king's horses and all the king's men fall thudding down upon the stage. Mix this with a little romantic irony and two quarters of a pint of boisterousness-result, applause. The first night audience at "The Orange Comedy" applauded often and more often. Nor was it the feeble courtesy to friend and foe 30 often a part of amateur theatricals: it came from the moist palm of approval...
...fashioned whiskey glass contained 2 oz., 8 to the pint. Good foreign brandy contains 50% absolute alcohol, good wine 10%, good beer 5%. To become dead drunk, according to these scientific calculations, would require 1% quarts of brandy, 7% quarts of wine, 1¼ cases of beer...
...Wangel, the husband of the lady from the sea, alone succeeds in dodging the grand manner and that only on occasion. Jewett, as the Stranger who threatens the Wangels' domesticity, is as pompous and unconvincing of the hollow, haunting eye, as a Falstaff. Professor Arnholm is often a pint-size Jewett, but no matter, the focus is rarely upon...
...story says he collected the jewels in a pint milk bottle, took it home full. -Mr. Stephenson says he spent $120,000 to elect Governor Jackson, and later commanded him to appoint Senator Robinson, Republican, as the successor of the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat...
...Four slices of bread, boiled rice, tomato salad, strawberry shortcake, a pint of vanilla ice cream and raspberry soda...