Word: quart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maudlinity came to be worth the incredible sum of $6,000 a week to them. They formed their own company. Famed were its members: Peter F. Daily, "the quickest-witted man who ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in his dressing room; golden Lillian Russell who "broke 1,000 hearts a night" when she sang Rosie, you are my Posie; David Warfield, William Collier, Fay Templeton, De Wolf Hopper, Bessie McCoy, Frankie Bailey, Sam Bernard...
...Giving the blood isn't painful", he said. "All that is done is to stick a needle into the donor's arm and pump ous as much of the fluid as is needed. About a pint can be taken with perfect safety and a quart has been removed without ill effects, but if the larger amount is taken from some persons they notice had symptoms, such as tiring easily and getting short of breath. If they drink a good deal of water and rest completely for a day or so they will recover entirely...
...donors, he said that they were always selected from among the nurses in the hospital and the medical students. "You can imagine" he said, "what a motley crowd of bums and tramps we would have applying if we advertised that we would buy blood at 50 dollars a quart. No, thank you, we have quite enough to supply the demand right here...
...world quart...
Present standards need only a little changing here and there in order to conform with those of the 20 other American republics: the yard must be stretched; the quart must take on international proportions-become a world quart. Canada is expected to follow the U. S. in participation...