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Word: pour (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corridors comforting two-thirds of the passenger list which were deathly seasick. But Miss Cullen and her friends were bound to make a night of it. stay up and see the dawn over New York Harbor. They never saw it, for suddenly a cloud of smoke began to pour from the library. Some seamen were slopping buckets of water on a blaze. They told Miss Cullen and her friends: "Don't worry! It will be put out easy." Miss Cullen ran down to wake up her roommate and get a coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Inferno Afloat | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...Europe most connoisseurs take their green devil in the form of an "absinthe drip." Sugar is placed in a special absinthe spoon pierced with holes which is held above a tall glass. Some begin by putting absinthe in the glass, pouring water over the sugar. Others begin with water in the glass, pour absinthe over the sugar and achieve the same effect, a cloudy, greenish, diluted drink. Only fools sip absinthe straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Brutish Wormwood | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Absinthe frappe" is really an absinthe julep. New Orleans masters put half a teaspoonful of sugar in the bottom of a tall glass, fill up with finely shaved ice, let the sugar dissolve, pour in 1-oz. (jigger) of absinthe, stir with a spoon, and finally add one ounce of carbonated water, drop by drop, stirring all the time until the frappe turns cloudy and thick frost forms on the glass. Similar are French absinthe frappes except for the carbonated water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Brutish Wormwood | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Swan Goring | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German to French. "Malheur pour nous! Malheur pour vous! Et malheur pour tout le monde!" puzzled Germans heard him shout. "An evil day for us! For you! And for all the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crux of Crisis | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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