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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most amazing drink invented by Professor Thomas is the BLUE BLAZER. His recipe: "Use two large silver-plated mugs, with handles. One wineglass of Scotch whiskey. One wineglass of boiling water. Put the whiskey and the boiling water in one mug, ignite the liquid with fire, and while blazing mix both ingredients by pouring them four or five times from one mug to the other. If well done this will have the appearance of a continuous stream of liquid fire. Sweeten with one teaspoonful of pulverized white sugar, and serve in a small bar tumbler, with a piece of lemon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to Mix | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...colorless alcoholic liquor (40% to 60%) used for cocktails, Tom Collinses, silver fizzes, etc., illegal now and said to have contributed to the downfall of many an honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Georgia Gin | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...buyers choose according to their tastes. Gold and silver and lead; In the hands of a purchaser they may become anything. But there are some in when none of the display is attractive. This, they think, is strange, Where so many are satisfied to exchange their pennies, there must be something wrong with those who cannot find a metal worthy of their own coin. So they make a resolution for their own good and spend their money on a toy whistle to blow, just because everybody else has a whistle, and spend the rest of the time trying to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARKET DAY | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...another plane, is as safe as being on the ground and much more pleasant. Accordingly, the de Sibours would go around the world in a $3,250 airplane which uses 4½ gallons of gas and not quite a pint of oil per hour. It is a blue and silver Moth, named Safari II. The de Sibours will fly only when the weather is right and if they lose their way they will land their little plane most anywhere and get directions. They will be ferried across the largest bodies of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Airy Epigram | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Cardinal Bourne, famed priest. For 25 of his 67 years he has been Archbishop of Westminster. He came to the archbishopric when the cathedral was but a shell, developed it; lived to receive the red hat from Pope Pius X (1911). Last week he celebrated pontifical mass for his silver milestone as archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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