Word: quart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a show place and I couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that...
Misenhimer. In Fort Smith, Ark., at an auction where liquor went with purchases of war bonds. Prohibitionist R. F. Misenhimer applied his belief that an empty bottle is better than a full one, poured out a quart of Old Taylor, sold the dead man for $100. A few minutes later a full quart brought...
Given by Emmanuel College Alumnae at the Salle Moderne, Hotel Statler. There will be a door prize of ONE QUART OF CHAMPAGNE. It will be at 2030 tonight. The music is by Guy Ormondy and the admission is free...
...Bouncing Betty" and "Leaping Lena" are names for the Nazi S-mine. No bigger than a quart-size tin can, it is buried close to the surface. When it is tripped it leaps five feet into the air, then explodes in a spray of steel in all directions...
...Bleeck's Artists & Writers Restaurant on Manhattan's 40th Street, one Henry George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella...