Word: quart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general dryness and unapproachable frigidity of the lecturer . . ." If your reviewer desires a slap-you-on-the-back, Y. M. C. A., up-your mark-ten-points-for-a-quart-of-rye, he's out of his element in the presence of a brilliant gentleman such as Professor Morison. The critic who confuses cultural restraint with congenital coyness ought to be drowned in his own pink ink. Samuel Eliot Morison is one of the ensiost and most sympathetic men to work with I have ever known. His ability as a stylist and an orator renders his lectures as interesting...
...swizzling. " It was the young fools of the 'sophisticates' of Paris who started all the trouble. Like the young fools of today they tried to 'show the world they could take it.' They would lounge around at tables and drink a quart of absinthe a day and boast about it. Finally they got where they drank their daily quart of absinthe straight, without mixing it with anything. French workmen began to copy their habits. So France made the sale of absinthe illegal?in France! French absinthe makers were permitted to continue making absinthe for export. France wasn't worked about...
...Rolfe, who last week seemed likely to be regulars this season. Heffner is a young Baltimorean who last year fielded brilliantly and had a batting average of .293 with the Baltimore Orioles. His main worry is his weight, 155-lb.; to increase it last autumn he drank a quart of cream every day. Robert Abiel Rolfe comes from Penacook, N. H., graduated from Dartmouth in 1931, batted .326 for Newark last year, when he was voted most valuable player in the International League. Redhaired, ruddy-faced, his stance in the infield is characterized by a noticeable stoop, feet pointed directly...
During the two or three weeks directly following repeal loud promises were made by the Federal government that it would guarantee that prices charged for liquor would not be excessive, even if it had to exercise its right to regulate prices charged by the distiller; whiskey at $1.50 a quart was predicted for the near future, and Health Commissioner Wynne of New York put through regulations which were supposed to insure the purity and correct labeling of liquor...
...wants a tax of five dollars a gallon or more in order, he explains, to break up the "Whiskey Trust." Unfortunately, this does not appeal to Mr. Shoemaker of Wisconsin. What we need even more than a five cent cigar, he avers, is whiskey at twenty-five cents a quart. As an after-thought he appended the interesting information that when he was a guest of the government at Leavenworth Prison, there were a hundred and seventy stills within the prison walls. One can only regret that Norman Douglas' gentleman who laid all the ills of the world...