Word: posset
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...theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
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Many phases of the subject are represented, from the milk posset receipt of Sir Walter Raleigh to information for making malt liquor at home, so that any persons might have it "strong, fine, and aged, at their own Discretion" from a book "In Praise of Drunkenness" to such anti-alcoholic tracts as the following extract, concerned with naval morals...
...them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will grow straggly and fall out. The Domnei idea (worship of women) has proved wholly untenable, and no one ever discovers a posset or cantrap to confound Koschei, the god of things as they...