Word: quarte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made good in this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn't have no subways. They went down in the 'bowels of the earth' and dug 'em out. Now they have gone to Italy and drink wine for 15 cents a gallon while we pay $5.00 a quart for rotten liquor...
...neck until dead, or Georgia Spirituals, the "Banana Comedy" lacks that essence of quintessence necessary for any successful dramatic representation--sex. Who can see sex in a banana. No one. It is impossible. As Mr. Shubert said when I talked with him between the acts, "I have a quart...
...three acts the audience and the authors worry themselves with the question, "Will Tommy get her?", and it takes the combined efforts of his rival Bernard, politican Uncle Dave, and a quart of something-or-other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight...
Campus Character. George E. Tinker, operator of Jimmie's Lunch nearby the Harvard Yard, won a bet from two Harvard undergraduates last week. They presented him with a quart of gin, bet he could not drink it down. He won, fell under the counter in agony, died later without naming the losers...
...Every gin essence has its own formula for mixing, varying between 16 and 48 drops per quart. The proportions of other ingredients remain about constant: three parts of distilled water to two parts of alcohol (pour the water into the alcohol, not vice versa). Shake with great patience. Add glycerine by the teaspoonful to suit the taste. Some authorities maintain that the best blends are obtained by diluting the essence in a small quantity of alcohol before adding it to the whole "batch...