Word: quarte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 1, 1924, for a subject on which we can relieve ourselves of the telling phrases that we have been saving up for the last few years. At the option of the winner the prize will consist of a solid gold ivory mounted betel nut outfit or of a quart bottle of Haig and Haig (risk of entry to be borne by the winner...
...general motive of "Dr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" is to burlesque the prevailing type of mystery play. The action of the play takes place at "Aunt Margaret's Manor House in Northern Vermont,--one quart's pop from the Canadian border." The complications of the play are due to the combined efforts of Peggy's ardent admirers and various mysterious personages such as bootleggers, spirits, and members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Take a quart of synthetic Gordon gin, ten oranges and some ice; mix; get a refined lady drunk and distress her mother; get drunk yourself; when you and the refined lady are thoroughly intoxicated get into the car and zigzag through the streets until you see a woman wheeling a baby carriage from one curb to the other; then step on the gas. The chances are the carriage will have a baby...
Most of the hilarity centers about a quart bottle of champagne, on which one of the young blades (Mr. Young and one of the ex-fiancées (Estelle Winwood) get unwarrantably but agreeably mellow. Other indignities offered the recent amendment are highballs in the first act, cocktails before the champagne, and a pitcher of some obscure intoxicant in a restaurant scene...
...dinner pails will not be full--they will be empty--but each will be of ten-quart size, and into each, the men, filing past well-stocked counters, will place such things as please their palates--clams, a lobster each, watermelon, coffee in cups specially provided, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and a pipe. They will then march to the beach which will be the gathering-place for luncheon...