Word: pizen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...Opera. Both of them seemed to be enjoying it appreciatively. Secondly, I could not see any curtain, iron or otherwise, when I entered the country. I came in over the rabble of Germany and have traveled only by hitch-hiking since I've been here. First I went to Pizen, then Prague, and then south to Moravin and Brne. There are many police here and there are many soldiers, but not any more than there are in France. Hitching from Prague I was stopped by a klotch of six policemen, each of whom looked like an Italian admiral...
...Colorado Springs, Harry Galbraith of the Colorado Historical Society settled an old controversy over the proper way to make a pioneer drink variously known as "pizen," "popskull" and "panther milk." The recipe: "To a five-gallon keg of Taos Lightning [whiskey] add a one-pound plug of chopped chewing tobacco, two pounds of burnt dried peaches and 20 charges of gunpowder; stir the mixture well and drink...
...younger days Editor Sullens sometimes used his fists. Now he is 62 and for a decade he has stuck to pen pizen, made loquacious Mississippi Governor Paul Burney Johnson holler that he come out and fight. Paul Johnson has been barbecued and fricasseed in sometimes as many as six News editorials a day for the last nine years...
Editor Sullens, half owner of the News, not only writes a front-page column (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and three columns of editorial pizen, but until recent years he insisted on covering the Legislature himself. One evening last week a sizzling session of the Legislature-which has long frustrated the Governor-ended in an uproar. But Paul Johnson had had enough of words. Next night, in the crowded lobby of one of Jackson's political centres, the Walthall Hotel, Governor Johnson rushed upon Sullens, as the editor and his pretty young wife of a year crossed...