Word: quarte
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...Store in the Square, Frank Purcell, disagreed with his colleagues on the prevailing undergraduate scotch propensity. "Harvard men will drink anything alcoholic," he remarked, hastily explaining that the turpentine on the floor would be used for the walls. He expected malt liquor to be in demand, and was stocking quart bottles of Pell's Light and Blatz' Heavy last Tuesday...
These hardy, car hungry souls, unfazed by wear, have scooped up the cream of the 1929 used car mart and buy their oil with a reckless abandon. Thomas it. Morse '48, who operates from Lowell House, pours a quart of oil into his 1922 model T Ford with each gallon of gasoline and loves every minute...
...section headed "Up From the Ape" the poll aims to determine whether the subject is a confirmed beer guzzler, a sipper only on social occasion, or among those who soak up hard "likker" by the quart in solitary confinement...
...laugh. Good whiskey is easier to get in Topeka than in wet Kansas City, Mo., 67 miles away. It just costs a little more. Everyone knows that there are at least 45 reliable bootleggers among Topeka's 76,000 population; that every bellhop has a ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon the "Soup Man" and fork over...
...when you can find it. Some of the boys used to swipe quarts of milk and then go to the gas station to beg gasoline for a spike. Milk isn't left on doorsteps any more. It costs 20? a quart and the jerks at the gas stations ain't very friendly any more...