Word: quarte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Panama facing a pretty girl and a cold quart of wine...
...rich citizen and then take six simple steps: 1) offer him a drink out of a bottle of real "Old Parr" whiskey; 2) assure him that many another bottle of "Old Parr" whiskey, smuggled in on Pullman trips from Canada, could be secured at $6 for each quart bottle; 3) meet the rich citizen at an appointed place; 4) deposit in his automobile four cases of real old shoes, bricks, rocks, broken glass and garbage; 5) take from his hand $285 in payment thereof; 6) vanish...
Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they "kill the quart" before Mr. Tiernan goes home. They are bosom friends and two hours pass pleasantly while they rehash what has been their favorite conversational topic since the Lihmes left town, namely, the stinginess of "The Old Swede's" (Mr. Lihme's) tips and the indisputable right, the incontrovertible necessity of two fine Irish elevator men to get an increase...
...history now, they say, that the Harvard crew last week took the lead at the start with powerful, lunging strokes; that Yale was a length and a half behind before the three-mile (three quart ers) mark was reached. Then Yale began to row with all the human efficiency that Coach Edward O. Leader had taught...
...World Quart. Although the A.S.T.M. is engaged in standardizing specifications for materials used industrially and has set up 497 distinct standards, at the French Lick meeting they did nothing about establishing a world quart, about applying the metric system of weights & measures to all U. S. uses...